Magnolias

nd Fret Intro: I met you once in a living room in Jackson Thought of you for six years or more One hour, you were my secret standard One night, you walked back through my door___ Your lanky frame was not what I remembered Waking from a long and fitful sleep But after early morning conversation I drove to north Texas in disbelief That quaking in my heart was too deep for words It tremored and it trembled and it ached___ We spoke our peace out on the Golden Gate Bridge And sealed it with a kiss under magnolias Fortunes not made and not discovered There were mentors, we were protégés From one rite of passage to another We roughed through the wellsprings of our early days And underneath that surface there was something Only you and I could understand I made my commitment to that long ago Standing in the hallway down in Dixieland And that quaking in my heart too deep for words It tremors and it trembles and it aches___ We spoke our peace out on the Golden Gate Bridge And sealed it with a kiss under magnolias There's one thing that I love more than Austin Or curving 'round the Frio on her turquoise streets It's your melancholy dread of Sunday evenings Your shivering body when it sleeps__ The future's looking stormy here before us There are wars, calamities and tribulations We'll hatchet down the windows if we have to And stand the watch together 'til the morning 'Cause that quaking in my heart's too deep for words It tremors and it trembles and it aches___ We spoke our peace out on the Golden Gate Bridge And sealed it with a kiss under magnolias