This is Love - Mary Chapin Carpenter

[00:20.87]If you ever need to hear a voice in the middle of the night
[00:24.54]When it seems so black outside that you can't remember light
[00:28.92]Ever shone on you or the ones you love in this or another lifetime
[00:37.32]And the voice you need to hear is the true and the trusted kind
[00:43.52]With a soft familiar rhythm in these swirling unsure times
[00:45.96]When the waves are lapping in and you're not sure you can swim
[00:49.84]Well, here's the lifeline
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[00:53.65]If you ever need to feel a hand take up your own
[00:58.13]When you least expect but want it more than you've ever known
[01:01.52]Baby here's that hand and baby here's my voice that's calling
[01:08.79]This is love
[01:13.97]All it ever was and will be
[01:17.30]This is love
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[01:26.52]If you ever need some proof that time can heal your wounds
[01:30.40]Just step inside my heart and walk around these rooms
[01:34.28]Where the shadows used to be
[01:37.17]You can feel as well as see how peace can hover
[01:41.61]Now time's been here to fix what's broken with its power
[01:46.19]The love that smashed us both to bits, spent its last few hours
[01:51.26]Calling out your name, I thought this is the kind of pain
[01:54.85]From which we don't recover
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[01:59.03]But I'm standing here now with my heart held out to you
[02:02.92]You would've thought a miracle was all that got us through
[02:06.65]Well baby, all I know, all I know is I'm still standing
[02:14.22]This is love
[02:18.20]All it ever was and will be
[02:22.09]This is love
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[02:27.11]Standing up for you, and standing up for me
[02:32.52]And I see you still and there's this catch in my throat
[02:36.21]And I just swallow hard till it leaves me
[02:39.64]There's nothing in this world that can change what we know
[02:43.28]Still I know I am here if you ever need me
[02:50.74]This is love
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[03:24.75]And if you ever think of me let it be around twilight
[03:28.39]When the world has settled down
[03:30.43]And the last round of sunlight is waning in the sky
[03:34.76]As you sit and watch the night descending
[03:41.08]A car will pass out front with lovers at the wheel
[03:44.71]A dog will bark out back
[03:47.61]And children's voices peal over and under the air
[03:52.09]You've been there lost in the remembering
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[03:57.06]If you ever wish for things that are only in the past
[04:00.60]Just remember that the wrong things aren't supposed to last
[04:05.23]Babe, it's over and done
[04:07.17]And the rest is gonna come
[04:09.31]When you let it
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[04:12.40]This is love
[04:16.33]All it ever was and will be
[04:20.76]This is love
[04:23.80]When you let it, if you let it
[04:29.45]This is love
[04:33.78]All it ever was and can be
[04:37.46]This is love