This Is Love Lyrics - Carpenter Mary-chapin

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