This Is Love* (Album Version)-Mary Chapin Carpenter

[00:00.65]Songs Title：this is love [00:04.53] [00:08.70] [00:21.39]If you ever need to hear a voice in the middle of the night [00:24.95]When it seems so black outside that you cant remember light [00:29.55]Ever shone on you or the ones you love in this or another lifetime [00:36.19] [00:37.43]And the voice you need to hear is the true and the trusted kind [00:41.94]With a soft, familiar rhythm in these swirling, [00:45.43]unsure times when the waves are lapping in and youre not sure you can swim [00:51.18]Well heres the lifeline [00:53.67]If you ever need to feel a hand take up your own [00:57.92]When you least expect but want it more than youve ever known [01:02.13]Baby heres that hand and baby heres my voice thats calling, [01:07.90] [01:09.41]this is love, all it ever was and will be [01:17.39]This is love [01:19.49] [01:26.30]And if you ever need some proof that time can heal your wounds [01:30.37]Just step inside my heart and walk around these rooms [01:34.49]Where the shadows used to be, [01:36.74]you can feel as well as see how peace con hover [01:40.25] [01:42.49]Now times been here to fix whats broken with its power [01:45.98]The love that smashed us both to bits spent its last few hours [01:50.92]Calling out your name, I thought this is the kind of pain [01:54.95]From which we dont recover [01:56.95] [01:58.02]But Im standing here now with my heart held out to you [02:02.65]You wouldve thought a miracle was all that got us through [02:06.52]Well baby all I know, all I know is Im still standing [02:11.95] [02:13.27]And this is love all it ever was and will be [02:21.45]This is love [02:24.23] [02:31.16]And I see you still and theres this catch in my throat and [02:35.05]I just swallow hard till it leaves me [02:38.30] [02:39.05]Theres nothing in this world that can change what we know [02:42.48]Still I know I am here if you ever need me [02:46.51] [02:49.15]And this is love [02:51.39] [03:30.14]And if you ever think of me let it be around twilight [03:34.14]When the world has settled down and the last round of sunlight [03:38.86]Is waning in the sky, as you sit and watch the night descending [03:44.17] [03:46.24]A car will pass out front with lovers at the wheel [03:50.61]A dog will bark back out and childrens voices peal [03:54.82]Over and under the air, youve been there lost in the remembering [04:01.06] [04:02.13]And if you ever wish for things that are only in the past [04:06.50]Just remember that the wrong things arent supposed to last [04:10.57]Babe its over and done and the rest is gonna come when you let it [04:16.50] [04:17.19]And this is love, all that it ever was and will be [04:25.40]This is love, when you let it, if you let it now [04:33.42]This is love, all it ever was and can be [04:41.23]This is love