Magnolia Video (MV)

You were wearing that thick black coat dear
As we stepped into the cool night air
And I didn't want to let you go
But I was worried you wouldn't care
I'd press your face up to mine for warmth, dear
Whisper "stay with me," like a prayer
The magnolias brought me back here to when
We were painfully unaware
And I know I have a choice
But I don't want to make one
I've got promises to break
But I didn't want to take them on
And you just never seem to know when
(It's colder out today than yesterday, hon')
It is that you can tell me that I'll see you again
(Will we remember the spring by then?)
I was a temperamental time bomb
Wanting to keep you around
You were never an easy goer
But you kept me safe and sound
All I wanted to hear you tell me
Flooded into my mind too late
You were already on your way, dear
Guess I need to recalibrate
See the thing that I knew from day one
Is I want to remember this
Know what's coming and what I'd outrun
Not a moment that I would miss
But the memories, they don't play nice
They won't come when they are called
It takes a trigger to bring them back here, and then
The magnolia petals fall
It might be true, but I've no way of knowing
Will it all be worth it? Will time tell?
And while you change
I just stay the same
Just make it to the spring and then
We can see the magnolias bloom again
(We can smell the magnolias bloom again)
(We can smell the magnolias bloom again)
(We can smell the magnolias bloom again)
We can smell the magnolias bloom again