[Verse 1] There’s a certain kind of heartbreak in a happiness like this, In knowing every reason why Elliot is someone else’s wish. A lifetime full of laughter, all the secrets that they share, And a thousand little moments that meant more than the best man could bear. The best man had learned to love in silence, learned to smile and play his part, To celebrate a future that will never hold his heart. And when they ask him for a toast, he’s got the perfect thing to say, He’s spent a lifetime loving someone he’ll be giving away. [Pre-Chorus 1] He hears, “You know Elliot better than anybody here,” And smiles at words that suddenly become so hard to hear. He’s got a thousand memories, but only some can see the light, So he chooses all the happy ones and holds the others tight. [Chorus] So here’s to love, here’s to forever, To finding someone who makes the hard days better. Here’s to the mornings and the midnight drives, To all the little things that make a beautiful life. May every dream they share become a memory someday, May they never run out of reasons to ask each other to stay. And here’s to loving someone with all a heart can give, Even when the dream of being loved back isn’t his to live. [Verse 2] He remembers summer evenings when they’d talk until the dawn, About the lives they’d build someday and where they’d both belong. Elliot once said, “Whoever gets you better know they’re blessed,” He laughed and changed the subject with a thousand words suppressed. He knows the way Elliot laughs before it fills the air, The things that make him nervous and the dreams he’s scared to share. And though he’d spent his whole life wishing he could take that place, Tonight he finds a different kind of love in letting go with grace. [Pre-Chorus 2] He used to think that loving meant a chance to call him his, That every road not taken was a life he’d somehow missed. But looking at the happiness reflected in Elliot’s eyes, He starts to understand that love can live without a prize. [Chorus] So here’s to love, here’s to forever, To finding someone who makes the hard days better. Here’s to the mornings and the midnight drives, To all the little things that make a beautiful life. May every dream they share become a memory someday, May they never run out of reasons to ask each other to stay. And here’s to loving someone with all a heart can give, Even when the dream of being loved back isn’t his to live. [Bridge] Elliot will never know the words that almost made it past his lips, Or all the years of wanting something just beyond his fingertips. But love was never wasted just because it went unseen, And not every broken heart means losing everything. He doesn’t need a different ending to believe the love was real, Or someone else’s promises to tell him what to feel. He thought he’d have to bury every dream he’d held so long, But loving Elliot was never something he needed to call wrong. [Final Chorus] So here’s to love, here’s to forever, To finding someone who makes the hard days better. Here’s to the mornings and the midnight drives, To all the little things that make a beautiful life. May every dream they share become a memory someday, May they never run out of reasons to ask each other to stay. And here’s to a love that asks for nothing in return, To finding peace in all the things his heart has had to learn.
