A bang then stardust in your eyes   A billion years or just this night   Either way it'll be all right   A blackness then the light of a million stars   As you slip into my car the evening   sky strikes sparks   This life, this life and then the next   With you I have been blessed,   What more can you expect      At night at my telescope alone   This emptiness I've roamed   Searching for a home   The stars a brief string of shining charms   Rushing in red out of our arms   into the drifting dark   This life, this life and then the next   With you I have been blessed,   what more can you expect      This life, this life and then the next   I finger the hem of your dress,   my universe at rest      We reach for starlight all night long   but gravity's too strong   Chained to this earth we go on and on and on   Then a million suns cresting where you stood   A beauty in the neighborhood   This lonely planet never looked so good      This life, this life and then the next   With you I have been blessed,   what more can you expect   This life, this life and then the next   I finger the hem of your dress,   my universe at rest