Intro
Verse 1
On a Tuesday in October, in a city made of rain
You ran into my morning and you never left again
You said I wasn't meant to see you, I said I already had
And the maples turned to gold above us in a world still going mad
Verse 2
On the Bainbridge ferry sunset, with the pewter under glass
On a driftwood log at Vashon in the April cherry pass
I drew a house with windows and a promise I could keep
When I'm forty I will build this for the girl I can't let sleep
Pre-Chorus
One promise under blossoms
One ring inside a box
One storm to end the world we made
One call that turned the locks
Chorus
Twenty-two winters, twenty-two years
Seventy-three letters I wrote through my tears
Twenty-two letters you kept in a drawer
For a door you would open twenty-two Marches more
Oh, we waited across the same city
Never knowing the other was there
Twenty-two winters, twenty-two years
Still carrying love we didn't dare
Verse 3
On a blacked-out night in November, the power lines all fell
A man picked up the phone you left and sent me to a private hell
He said you needed silence, and I let my pride believe
Three days became three winters, became a life I couldn't grieve
Chorus
Twenty-two winters, twenty-two years
Seventy-three letters I wrote through my tears
Twenty-two letters you kept in a drawer
For a door you would open twenty-two Marches more
Bridge
Across the lake I built my life
Across the lake you raised your girls
One window in a Medina wall
Looking at the buildings I had drawn for all
Fifteen minutes of a bridge between us
Fifteen minutes, and a prayer
Eight long years of a locked drawer's keeping
And forty-six found me there
Final Chorus
Twenty-two winters, twenty-two years
Seventy-three letters, seventy-three tears
You walked to the park, I heard your feet
And the pewter sky broke open above Lake Union's sleep
Oh, some loves are not lost, my love
Some loves just run late
Twenty-two winters, one single spring
Some loves are only delayed
Outro
Some loves are not lost
Some loves are only delayed
Under the maples that turned to gold
A girl I would not forget
Twenty-two winters
Twenty-two winters