Offhand Chance

[HARMONY: Dmaj9 – Gmaj7(#11) – Bm11 – F#m7/A – Gm9 – D/F# – E7sus4 – A13 – Dmaj9] [Verse 1] it was nothing, really— a small mischief of light a doorway, a turned head, day leaning into night the room had all its ordinary glass and breath and weather too then time, that careful locksmith, left one key inside of you [Pre-Chorus] and who could know what a maybe may do when the air says go and the heart says who— [Chorus] on the offhand chance of meeting you the whole wide world came quietly unglued one loose hello one borrowed view and suddenly a life came rushing through on the offhand chance of meeting you [Verse 2] not thunder—not a headline not a choir split in two just the strange soft engineering of me arriving into you roads began to lose their loneliness walls forgot what walls are for and every little almost opened like an inward door [Pre-Chorus] and who could name what the seconds knew how a spark without a claim made a sky break through— [Chorus] on the offhand chance of meeting you the whole wide world came quietly unglued one loose hello one borrowed view and suddenly a life came rushing through on the offhand chance of meeting you [Bridge] now years wear gold in the grain of the table days stack their dishes, their grief, their grace and still that moment stands there—able to turn bare time into a dwelling place what looked like accident what felt like air became the ground became the prayer [Final Chorus] on the offhand chance of meeting you all my scattered names came home as true one human glance one living clue and all the unknown opened like it knew on the offhand chance of meeting you i found the life I was walking to on the offhand chance of meeting you all my scattered names came home as true one human glance one living clue and all the unknown opened like it knew on the offhand chance of meeting you i found the life I was walking to