(Mary Chapin Carpenter)



If you ever need to hear a voice in the middle of the night

When it seems so black outside that you can't remember

Light ever shone on you or the ones you love in this or another lifetime



And the voice you need to hear is the true and the trusted kind, with a soft

Familiar rhythm in these swirling, unsure times, when the waves are lapping in

And you're not sure you can swim, well here's the lifeline



If you ever need to feel a hand take up your own

When you least expect but want it more than you've ever known

Baby, here's that hand, and baby's here's my voice that's calling



This is love, all that ever was and will be

This is love



If you ever need some proof that time can heal your wounds, just step

Inside my heart and walk around these rooms; where the shadows used to be,

You can feel as well as see how peace can hover



Time's been here to fix what's broken with its power and the love that

Smashed us both to bits spent its last few hours calling out your name,

And I thought, this is the kind of pain from which we don't recover



But I'm standing here now with my heart held out to you

You would have thought a miracle was all that got us through

Well baby, all I know, all I know is I'm still standing



And this is love, all that ever was and will be

This is love, standing up for you baby, standing up for me

And I see you still and there's this catch in my throat;

And I just swallow hard till it leaves me

There's nothing in this world that can change what we know

Still I know I am here if you ever need me



And this is love

If you ever think of me, let it be around twilight, when the world has

Settled down, and the last round of sunlight is waning in the sky as you

Sit and watch the night descending



A car will pass out front with lovers at the wheel, a dog will bark out

Back, and children's voices peal over and under the air, you've been there,

Lost in the remembering



If you ever wish for things that are only in the past

Just remember that the wrong things aren't supposed to last

Baby, it's over and done, the rest is gonna come when you let it



And this is love, all that ever was and will be

This is love, when you let it baby, if you let it now

This is love, all that ever was and can be

This is love