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