Seven Years Apart

(mmm) Seven time zones, seven calendars turned Screens growing cold while the winter

oil burned Packing one bag for a long weekend flight

Waving goodbye in the dawn airport light

We kept the count in the boarding pass stubs Learning how heavy

a simple hour was

People said time makes a promise go thin

They never saw how we held each other in

Every cracked dial tone,

every goodnight Carrying all of that distance inside

Now there's two sets of keys by the front wooden door We

don't count down the days anymore

Seven long years across ocean and wire

And we made a home by the quiet hearth fire

(oh, we made it home) No more goodbyes at the terminal gate

We're right where we belong,

it was worth every wait

Your winter coat hangs beside mine in the hall

No more bad connections breaking the call

Just coffee at sunrise with nowhere to rush

All of those years settled into the hush Of ordinary mornings we

prayed we would see

Finally sharing the same balcony

All of those midnight calls through the static and tears

Felt like a lifetime,

but look at us here

We held the thread across thousands of miles Turning the heartache to

quiet soft smiles

Now there's two sets of keys by the front wooden door

We don't count down the days anymore

Seven long years across ocean and wire And we made a home

by the quiet hearth fire (yeah,

we made it home) No more goodbyes at the terminal gate

We're right where we belong,

it was worth every wait

Seven years was a long road to walk in the

cold

Every plane ride a chapter in stories we told

Now sleep through the night,

you don't have to pack There's nowhere on earth that can pull

us back

Two sets of keys by the door (no more goodbyes) We're finally

home