forty winters cold and dark surround you like a beauty mark a tilt on the axises that time of year and the flesh of your cheekbones says no damage here the first time i saw you there was ice on the ground and the girl in the greenhouse said paradise found forty winters forty winters forty winters straight in line were you not my valentine orange blossoms and sandal woods oaken moss and musk will fragrance your senses from daylight till dusk you made the simple life fit for a king an oaten meal by candle light a beautiful thing forty winters forty winters forty winters forty winters why can t i break the spell shake you and make you well what is it blinding me that keeps you from finding me i know you re in there you haven t gone somewhere that god only knows about leaving me frozen out darling i promise you this i won t let you drown in the mist forty winters dark and drear could not age you one short year it s like i m trapped beneath the bell jar as big as the earth and i m running to reach you for all that i m worth i ll bathe you and feed you and i ll tend to your grace but don t make me leave you in such a dark place i m drunk on the bitterness that sorrow demands and i know that tomorrow is out of my hands until we re together i ll sleep in the snow and i ll love you forever cause that all i know forty winters forty winters forty winters forty winters forty winters forty winters