[Verse 1] I’ve watched December settle on the life I used to know, Seen the years take things I loved and still found room to grow. I’ve watched the spring return to places I thought time had left behind, And found that love can still surprise a heart that’s lived a thousand lives. [Pre-Chorus 1] I used to count the passing years by all they took away, The things I couldn’t hold onto, the ones I couldn’t save. But now I see the gift in every season we pass through, Because each year the world grows older, I get another year with you. [Chorus] So let the autumn turn to winter, let the summer disappear, Let the calendar keep turning, I’ll be grateful for each year. I don’t need to stop the seasons, I don’t need to slow the sun, When every day I get to love you is another one I’ve won. Here’s to all the years ahead of us, whatever they may bring, To finding something beautiful in every changing thing. I used to wish that time would wait, but now I want it near, For every season still to come, and every one that brought me here. [Verse 2] I’ve watched the years write stories in the corners of your eyes, And found a thousand reasons to be grateful we’re alive. I want to know the versions of you time has yet to show, To love the things that change in you as much as those I know. And when our hands grow older, when the spring comes late again, I’ll still be celebrating every year that we’ve been given. [Pre-Chorus 2] I used to fear the way that time could take the things we knew, But now I find a thousand little futures loving you. And every birthday, every wrinkle, every silver strand, Is proof that we’ve been given one more year to hold each other’s hands. [Chorus] So let the autumn turn to winter, let the summer disappear, Let the calendar keep turning, I’ll be grateful for each year. I don’t need to stop the seasons, I don’t need to slow the sun, When every day I get to love you is another one I’ve won. Here’s to all the years ahead of us, whatever they may bring, To finding something beautiful in every changing thing. I used to wish that time would wait, but now I want it near, For every season still to come, and every one that brought me here. [Bridge] One day we’ll look behind us at the life we got to share, At all the ordinary moments we were fortunate to spare. The mornings and the milestones, all the years we got to see, The miracle of growing old with someone loving me. And if the seasons teach me anything before our time is through, It’s that forever isn’t endless, it’s the days I get with you. So here’s to all the seasons, and the years we’re dreaming of, To a lifetime never being long enough for all this love. [Final Chorus] So let the autumn turn to winter, let the summer disappear, Let the calendar keep turning, I’ll be grateful for each year. I don’t need to stop the seasons, I don’t need to slow the sun, When every day I get to love you is another one I’ve won. Here’s to all the years ahead of us, whatever they may bring, To finding something beautiful in every changing thing. I used to wish that time would wait, but now I want it near, For every season still to come, and every one that brought me here.
