I Wrote It Down

Verse 1

Fingerpicked guitar and voice

In Lisbon you said you loved that lemon tartAt a gas station you hummed a song from ninety-sixYou said yellow umbrellas make the rain feel like a jokeYou said all of it in passingYou never thought I heard

Pre-Chorus

But every time you said you wanted somethingI reached into my pocket for a pen

Chorus

I wrote it downEvery little thing you wantedEvery word you said in passingI wrote it down

Verse 2

Your birthday came, there was a yellow umbrellaAnd a lemon tart from Lisbon, and that songYou cried and asked me how I knewI showed you three years of notes

Pre-Chorus

But every time you said you wanted somethingI reached into my pocket for a pen

Chorus

Piano enters

I wrote it downEvery little thing you wantedEvery word you said in passingI wrote it down

Bridge

Strings rise, voice opening up

You said you'd grow old by the seaI'm already looking at houses

Final Chorus

Full band, gritty soaring belt

I wrote it downEvery little thing you wantedEvery word you said in passingI wrote it downI wrote it downEvery little thing you wantedEvery word you say in passingI wrote it down