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 prot