She Came from the Mountains
Mountain Whispers: Love Lost in the Rockies
Lyrics
She came from the mountains Rocky Mountains eagle-high
Describing the origin of a woman from the Rocky Mountains, emphasizing their majestic and high nature.
She's from where the mountains lean up to the sky
Highlighting the geographical location of her origin, where the mountains reach up to the sky.
Now she's back among the Rockies where mountain thunders cry
She has returned to the Rockies, where the sounds of thunder in the mountains are heard.
Now the wind from off the mountains wails a sad goodbye
The wind from the mountains is now expressing a sorrowful farewell.
Once in Colorado Springs at the foot of old Pike's Peak
Recalling a meeting in Colorado Springs at the base of Pike's Peak with a Rocky Mountain girl.
I met a Rocky Mountain girl to my soul her heart let speak
Expressing a deep connection with the girl, where her heart communicates with the speaker's soul.
We went to tell her parents and an old grandmother said
Sharing the news with her family, and a grandmother warns of the consequences of leaving the mountains.
If you'll leave these mountains girl you'll wish that you were dead
The grandmother predicts negative outcomes if the girl abandons her mountainous roots.
The next day I took her with me to my far-off Iowa home
Taking the girl to Iowa, far from the mountains, and away from the moaning winds.
Way out on the flat lands where the mountain winds don't moan
Describing the flat lands where they reside, contrasting with the mountainous Colorado.
Each footstep we took was happy or at least it shouldn't been
Initially, every step in the new place is perceived as happy.
But I would find her listening for that same lone mountain wind
The girl, however, misses the familiar sound of the mountain winds, indicating a sense of longing.
She came from the mountains
Reiteration of her mountainous origin, emphasizing its significance.
Months passed as fast as antelopes until one fatal dismal dawn
The passage of time is compared to the speed of antelopes.
I walked to see morning sun shine down on where she was gone
The speaker discovers her absence during a sorrowful morning.
I'd known that lately she'd been sad women sometimes get that way
Recognizing the girl's recent sadness and acknowledging the complexity of women's emotions.
I hadn't guessed how much was wrong until that fatal day
The speaker realizes the extent of the girl's unhappiness only after she has left.
She had left the weeping letter homesick with mountain names
The girl leaves a letter with mountain names, expressing homesickness.
She was somewhere in the Rockies and I knew I'd been to blame
The speaker acknowledges his role in her departure and is aware that she is in the Rockies.
So now in Colorado Springs I wait near old Pike's Peak
The speaker waits in Colorado Springs, near Pike's Peak, where he first met the mountain girl.
Where once I met a mountain girl that mountain girl I seek
Expressing a longing to find the girl he met in the mountains.
She came from the mountains
Repeating the origin, emphasizing the central theme of the song.
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