[Verse] Between what was and what will be We learned to live without certainty No hand could hold the time No heart could beat beyond its line And still, beneath the changing years Something remained when nothing else was clear Not answers waiting to be found Just reasons not to turn around [Pre-Chorus] Let tomorrow keep its distance Let yesterday keep its frame There is nothing we can ask of either But there is something we can claim [Chorus] Borrowed evermore Every moment asks for nothing more Than to be lived before it slips away To be felt before it turns to yesterday Borrowed evermore If the future keeps its secrets out of sight We don't have to own the answer to the night Oh, we don't know, we don't know When the turning tide will flow Oh, we don't know, we don't know What tomorrow has to show Our lives are lent, not ours to store Borrowed evermore [Verse] We've learned the cost of looking back Of measuring distance by what we lack Some things belong to where they fell And some things remain because we loved them well There is a kind of strength that doesn't rise It stays even when everything divides And there is mercy in an open hand For what has gone and we can't command [Pre-Chorus] What has ended leaves its meaning What has vanished leaves its trace Neither asks to be forgotten Neither takes tomorrow's place [Chorus] Borrowed evermore Each fleeting breath reveals another door A chapter closes softly in its wake A wiser step emerges from the ache Borrowed evermore Whatever lies beyond the edge we cannot see May find us stronger than we thought we'd be Oh, the river leaves the mountain Oh, the fields release their rain Oh, the winter yields to colour When the earth turns green again What the seasons give returns no more Borrowed evermore [Verse] The days ahead have yet to speak Their promise neither strong nor weak No map can tell us where they'll lead No compass knows the turns we need Yet what is given can transcend The hour in which we call it end A little courage passed between Can outlive all that might have been [Bridge] We cannot ask the vanished to return Nor bargain with the years already gone But morning finds us standing where we are And that is where our choosing carries on No promise waits beyond the distant blue No answer settles what tomorrow brings We have this day, and with it, one decision: To walk ahead beneath the light we bring We leave the old where it belongs We face the hours we cannot know And when the dark falls over either one We lend the other what we hold aglow [Final Chorus] Borrowed evermore We cannot know what waits beyond the door But we can choose the road beneath our feet And meet the coming day before we meet defeat Borrowed evermore What yesterday has taken cannot be restored But side by side, we kindle what tomorrow cannot extinguish anymore [Outro] No oracle can tell us what comes next No backward glance can alter what is set So let the present find us side by side And let the other be the reason we don't hide No turning back can alter what has been No distant hour can tell us where it goes We have this day, and we will walk it through With every light we choose to show Borrowed evermore
