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Everything Else Will Pass

Verse 1
I was gonna stop and buy you flowers,
Something pretty for your birthday today,
But I got to thinking how the petals
Would just fall and fade away.

So I took the boy to school this morning,
Watched the sun come climbing through,
And I thought about this life we've been living,
And how much of it belongs to you.

Verse 2
We've had good days and we've had hard ones,
We've had nights we barely made it through,
We've had people try to come between us,
And we've had more than our share to lose.

But somewhere in the middle of the chaos,
Somewhere through the hurt and all the pain,
I still look at you and see the woman
That I'd choose all over again.

Chorus
'Cause everything else will pass, baby,
Like a storm rolling through the night.
The hard times, the words, the heartbreak,
They'll disappear with time.

But this love we've built from nothing,
Through every crack and every scar,
Is gonna keep on beating,
No matter where we are.

Let the whole world keep on changing,
Let the years keep rolling past...
As long as I've got you and you've got me,
Baby, everything else will pass.

Verse 3
We've raised a family through the madness,
Tried to give that boy the best we could,
Played the roles of Pappa and Mimi,
And prayed somehow we'd get it right and good.

And I know I haven't always been easy,
And I know that I've made you cry,
But loving you has always been the one thing
That never needed me to wonder why.

Pre-Chorus
'Cause I've watched life take things from people,
I've watched dreams fall through their hands,
And I've learned the things you think will last forever
Sometimes disappear like sand.

Chorus
But everything else will pass, baby,
Like a storm rolling through the night.
The hard times, the words, the heartbreak,
They'll disappear with time.

But this love we've built from nothing,
Through every crack and every scar,
Is gonna keep on beating,
No matter where we are.

Let the whole world keep on changing,
Let the years keep rolling past...
As long as I've got you and you've got me,
Baby, everything else will pass.

Bridge
One day these roads will all be memories,
These little problems won't seem so tall,
We'll look back and wonder why we worried
About half of it at all.

But I hope when we're old and gray together,
Sitting somewhere watching the sunset fall,
You'll still reach over and take my hand
And remember we survived it all.

Final Chorus
'Cause everything else will pass, Michelle,
Every season has to change.
The people, the problems, the heartbreak,
None of it stays the same.

But I believe in what we've got here,
More than anything I've ever had,
And after everything this life has given us,
I'd still take the good and bad.

So happy birthday, baby,
Today we're gonna celebrate you.
We'll take care of you and love you
Like the family's supposed to do.

I may not bring you flowers
That only bloom and fade too fast...

I'll give you all the love I've got,
And pray this love forever lasts.

'Cause when the years are gone and the world moves on,
And every moment becomes our past...

I'll still love you, Michelle...