It Still Mattered | Soul Blues Song About Love That Ended - Eli Rowan

[Verse 1] We had a little place on Cedar Second floor, the window stuck You’d laugh every time I fought it Say I never had much luck We had dishes in the sink And bills we couldn’t pay on time A radio that lost the station Every time it rained outside Nothing looked like forever While we were living through But forever wasn’t what made it True [Chorus] It still mattered Even if it didn’t last It was still love Even if it became the past You don’t throw away the whole song Because you reached the final chord It still mattered It still mattered And I won’t ask it To be more [Verse 2] There’s a photograph somewhere We were younger than we knew You were leaning on my shoulder I was leaning into you No grand promises between us No angels keeping score Just two people making dinner Dancing barefoot on the floor I could measure us by endings Count the years that disappeared Or I could measure by the moments I was glad that you were here [Chorus] It still mattered Even if it didn’t last It was still love Even if it became the past You don’t curse the summer garden When the winter takes the bloom It still mattered It still mattered Even though There’s empty room [Instrumental Turn] Hammond underneath a slow blues-guitar answer. [Verse 3] Time has softened some of the edges Left a few it couldn’t touch I don’t wake up reaching for you Well… Not nearly quite as much And I’ve learned there’s no betrayal In remembering something kind You can leave a love behind you Without leaving it denied Some people pass right through us Some stay longer than they should And sometimes what was temporary Was still good [Bridge — sparse] I used to think that losing you Changed what came before Like somehow every happy day Was lying toward the door But endings don’t reach backward They don’t get to change the truth You loved me then I loved you too That’s enough For me to keep [Final Chorus] It still mattered Even if it didn’t last It was still love Even if it became the past I don’t need another ending I don’t need another word Some things live inside us Long after they’re no longer heard It still mattered God, it mattered And these days That’s enough It still mattered Because it was Love [Outro] No… Forever wasn’t what made it True