This Is Love

If you ever need to hear a voice

In the middle of the night

When it seems so black outside

That you can't remember light

Ever shone on you or the ones you love

In this or another lifetime

And the voice you need to hear

Is the true and the trusted kind

With a soft, familiar rhythm

In these swirling, unsure times

When the waves are lapping in

And you're not sure you can swim

Well, here's the lifeline

If you ever need to feel a hand

Take up your own

When you least expect

But want it more than you've ever known

Baby, here's that hand

And, baby, here's my voice that's calling

This is love, all it ever was and will be

This is love

And if you ever need some proof

That time can heal your wounds

Just step inside my heart

And walk around these rooms

Where the shadows used to be

You can feel as well as see

How peace con hover

Now time's been here to fix

What's broken with its power

The love that smashed us both to bits

Spent its last few hours

Calling out your name

I thought this is the kind of pain

From which we don't recover

But I'm standing here now

With my heart held out to you

You would've thought a miracle

Was all that got us through

Well, baby, all I know

All I know is I'm still standing

And this is love, all it ever was and will be

This is love

And I see you still

And there's this catch in my throat

And I just swallow hard till it leaves me

There's nothing in this world

That can change what we know

Still I know I am here if you ever need me

And this is love

And if you ever think of me

Let it be around twilight

When the world has settled down

And the last round of sunlight

Is waning in the sky

As you sit and watch the night descending

A car will pass out front

With lovers at the wheel

A dog will bark out back

Ad children's voices peal

Over and under the air

You've been there lost in the remembering

And if you ever wish for things

That are only in the past

Just remember that the wrong things

Aren't supposed to last

Babe, it's over and done

And the rest is gonna come when you let it

And this is love, all that it ever was and will be

This is love, when you let it, if you let it now

This is love, all it ever was and can be

This is love