[Verse 1] I want to know the stories that your wrinkles someday tell, Every little line a lifetime, every scar a place we fell. I want to watch the silver settle softly in your hair, And love the changing face of you like I’ve always found you there. I want the quiet Sunday mornings and the laughter late at night, The thousand little ways you make an ordinary moment bright. I want the years to leave their fingerprints on everything we touch, Till the world forgets our names, but we still remember us. [Pre-Chorus 1] If I could gather every sunrise, I would lay them at your feet, Make a lifetime out of moments that the rest of us don’t keep. There’s a universe of wonder in the smallest things you do, And I could spend a thousand lifetimes still discovering you. [Chorus] I want every version of you that the passing years will bring, Every winter by the fire, every wild and waking spring. I want to be the steady hand you reach for in the night, The one who knows your darkness and still calls you all my light. If forever is a promise, let me keep it till the end, Let me love you through the years until we’re strangers to our friends. I only have one ask of the heavens up above, I pray God takes me first, love. [Verse 2] I want to learn the language of your hands when they grow old, Know the stories in their trembling, every memory they hold. I want to kiss the places where the years have settled in, And find a thousand new beginnings in the creases of your skin. I want to be the witness to the life that we create, To find you in the kitchen when the morning’s running late. I want to know the comfort of a love that’s grown so deep, That even in our dreaming, we’re the company we keep. [Pre-Chorus 2] If time could be persuaded, I’d convince it to be kind, To leave a little more of every ordinary day behind. I’d spend the extra hours learning all your hidden ways, And still be falling deeper when we run out of things to say. [Chorus] I want every version of you that the passing years will bring, Every winter by the fire, every wild and waking spring. I want to be the steady hand you reach for in the night, The one who knows your darkness and still calls you all my light. If forever is a promise, let me keep it till the end, Let me love you through the years until we’re strangers to our friends. I only have one ask of the heavens up above, I pray God takes me first, love. [Bridge] I’ve never loved you halfway, never counted what it cost, Never held a single moment with one eye upon its loss. But there’s a kind of silence that no language can explain, When the person who gives meaning to your world becomes a name. I want to spend my lifetime with your heartbeat next to mine, To be the one who loves you through the slow surrender of time. And if the stars are listening when our borrowed years are done, Let me close my eyes still knowing you’re the one, the only one. [Final Chorus] I want every version of you that the passing years will bring, Every winter by the fire, every wild and waking spring. I want to be the steady hand you reach for in the night, The one who knows your darkness and still calls you all my light. If forever is a promise, let me keep it till the end, Let me love you through the years until we’re strangers to our friends. I only have one ask of the heavens up above, I pray God takes me first, love. [Tag] I pray God takes me first, love.
