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 here's my voice that's calling      This is love   All it 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      Now time's been here to fix what's broken with its power   The love that smashed us both to bits, spent its last few hours   Calling out your name, 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've 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 it ever was and will be   This is love   Standin' up for you baby, standin' 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      And 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   Babe, it's over and done and the rest is gonna come when you let it      And this is love   All that it ever was and will be   This is love, when you let it babe, if you let it now      This is love   All it ever was and can be   This is love