twenty-two

tomorrow i'll be twenty-two
and that's how old i'll be
when i find out where
i'll be when i turn twenty-three

when i turned twenty
and when i turned twenty-one
it was with my sweetheart,
my only one

but tomorrow i'll be twenty-two
and that just won't change my mind
about missing you since you were there
[twenty-one, twenty, nineteen . . . ]
and i wanted you there all the time