Lyrics
I came to the cabin in a blizzard With a key I was certain was right It turned like a spoon in a teacup And the snow kept on falling all night My neighbour leaned out of her window With a laugh and a lantern held high She said that's the key to the woodshed Come in, there's a stew and a pie Snowed in with the wrong key Locked out and lucky as can be The drifts rose up, the door stayed shut And a warmer door swung open for me Snowed in with the wrong key Sharing soup and company Sometimes the lock that will not turn Is the one that sets you free We sat by her stove in our stockings With the kettle for a band She told me the names of the winters That had buried this little land I laughed at my pockets of nothing At the keys on my ring, nine or ten And not one of them fit the right doorway But all of them fit here, then Snowed in with the wrong key Locked out and lucky as can be The drifts rose up, the door stayed shut And a warmer door swung open for me Snowed in with the wrong key Sharing soup and company Sometimes the lock that will not turn Is the one that sets you free In the morning there was sunlight On a world all dressed in white And the right key in the woodshed Where she'd hung it overnight Snowed in with the wrong key Locked out and lucky as can be The drifts rose up, the door stayed shut And a warmer door swung open for me Snowed in with the wrong key Sharing soup and company Sometimes the lock that will not turn Is the one that sets you free Wrong key, right night Wrong key, right night