Colorado, Colorado   When the world leaves you shivering   And the blizzard blows      When the snow flies and the night falls   There's a light in the window   And a place called home at the end of the storm      One night on the mountain, I was headed for Estes   When the roads turned to ice and it started to snow   Put on the chains in a whirl of white powder   Half way up to Berthoud, near a diner I know      And the light burned inside, shining down through the snowfall   God, it was cold and the temperature droppin'   Went in for coffee and shivered as I drank it   Warm in my hands in the steam as it rose      Sitting there at the counter was a dark headed stranger   Me and the owner and him, keepin' warm   Nodded, ?Hello? and I said, ?It's a cold one   Looks like there might be a blizzard tonight?      And "Yes", said the owner", there's a big storm on the mountain   Good thing, we're open, we could be here for hours   There's nothing for miles and it's too late to get to Denver   Better not try for the summit tonight"      And the snow fell   And the night passed   And I talked to the strangers   While the blizzard blew      Me and the stranger, you know I don't talk to strangers   I'm a private sort of person but a blizzard is a blizzard   And somehow I found myself saying you'd left me   Tellin' him everything I wanted to say to you      You know how it is when you can talk to a stranger   Someone you're quite sure you'll never see again   Soon we were talkin' and laughin' and drinkin'   He said, "You must know, you're too good for him"      And the snow fell   And the night passed   And I talked to the stranger   While the blizzard blew      The stranger said, "Love, it can cry you a river   Me, I'm a loner 'cause I can't take the heartache   Sometimes I'm a fighter, when I get too much whiskey   Here have a whiskey, pretend you don't give a damn      My cabin's up here on the side of the mountain   You can go up there and sleep through the blizzard"   I put on my parka, said goodbye to the owner   Followed the stranger through the snow up the mountainside      Woke in the morning to the sun on the snow   My car was buried in six feet of snow drift   They dug me out, just the owner and the stranger   Sent me on my way when the snowplow had been by      And the roads were all clear, the sun on the mountains   Sparkled like diamonds on the peak to peak highway   Then I knew that I would get over you, knew you could leave me   But you'd never break me      Colorado, Colorado   When the world leaves you shivering   And the blizzard blows      When the snow flies and the night falls   There's a light in the window and a place called home   At the end of the storm