[Verse 1] We don’t know when the Lord will call us home, But we can choose how we live while we’re still strong. We’ve grown together since the day you wore that ring. What do you say we fix up that old porch swing. [Pre-Chorus] I need you beside me, can’t do this alone, Two hearts are stronger, when they’re beating as one. [Chorus] I don’t want to be a memory too soon, A faded photograph beneath a silent moon. Don’t want to wake up and find you’re not there, Or sit beside an empty rocking chair. Let's take a walk at the end of the day, Before we're just a piece of yesterday. I don’t want to be a memory too soon. [Verse 2] We’ve got grandchildren laughing today, I want to watch them grow along the way. Making happy face pancakes with a red nose Christmas cookies and playing in the snow. [Pre-Chorus] We don’t want them to ask the question we fear, Why didn’t they listen when the signs were clear? [Chorus] I don’t want to be a memory too soon, A faded photograph beneath a silent moon. Don’t want to wake up and find you’re not there, Or sit beside an empty rocking chair. Let’s take a walk at the end of the day, Before we're just a piece of yesterday. I don’t want to be a memory too soon. [Bridge] Picture their little faces running through our yard, Chasing butterflies and melting every heart. Where will we be when they’re older someday? When they need our wisdom to light their way? Hide and seek, calling out our names… But no PaPa, no MiMi comes to play. [Final Chorus] I don’t want to be just a picture on the wall, A name in a book, a whisper they recall. We’ve got too much living left to do, And I can’t imagine this journey without you. So let’s paint the porch this next spring, And sit together on that old porch swing. [Outro] And when our story’s told, beneath Heaven’s light, They’ll know we chose love and we chose to fight. We don’t want to be a memory too soon…
