[Sequence: Acoustic Intro | Verse 1 | Chorus | Verse 2 | Chorus | Bridge | Final Chorus | Outro] [Verse 1] We never needed perfect. We just needed time. A kitchen light at midnight, your hand reaching for mine. Years of little moments nobody else would know. A thousand ordinary days I wouldn't trade for gold. And if one day one of us wakes... Somewhere the other can't... I don't believe that's where our story ends. [Chorus] So if you get there before me, save a little place. I'll know you when I see you. I'll know that same old face. And after all the missing, after all the years apart, I'll take your hand like I always did... And we'll pick up where we left off. [Verse 2] You'll remember all the laughter. I'll remember every fight. The times we went to bed still mad and reached across at night. The plans that never happened. The ones that somehow did. The people that we used to be, and all the lives we lived. Maybe forever isn't somewhere strange and new. Maybe heaven's simply finding my way back home to you. [Chorus] So if you get there before me, save a little place. I'll know you when I see you. I'll know that same old face. And after all the missing, after all the years apart, I'll take your hand like I always did... And we'll pick up where we left off. [Bridge | Piano and Acoustic Guitar] But whoever stays behind still has some living left to do. There'll be mornings still worth waking for, and skies still turning blue. So don't ask me to hurry. And I won't ask you to wait. Live every day that's given... I'll be there when it's your day. And when that distance finally closes... There'll be nothing left to say. [Final Chorus | Full Band Slowly Enters] If I get there before you, I'll save a little place. And somehow when you're coming, I swear I'll know the day. I'll be waiting there to meet you, like I've waited once before... And when I see you walking toward me, I won't ask where you've been. I'll just smile and take your hand... And we'll be us again. No more missing. No more leaving. No more counting what we've lost. Just forever still unfolding... From exactly where we left off. [Outro | Solo Fingerpicked Guitar and Piano] Maybe love doesn't end. Maybe one heart just gets there first. And waits... While the other finishes living. [Soft Piano] Then one day... "There's my love." [Instrumental Resolve] [End]
