This Life With You

Lyrics

SLOW — intimate classic 90s country love song; fingerpicked acoustic guitar, warm pedal steel, gentle fiddle, soft melodic bass and restrained drums. Lead vocal close and vulnerable, with tender three-part harmonies gradually appearing until the final chorus feels enormous without losing the intimacy of the song.
Intro
[Fingerpicked acoustic guitar alone; a soft pedal-steel note rises beneath it]
Verse 1
I don't know how many mornings
I've woke up next to you
Or how many nights we've whispered
When the whole house finally grew still
I don't remember every hard day
Or every little thing we've done
But I remember reaching for you
Through every single one
And somewhere in those ordinary years
Without either of us knowing when
You became more than the one I love...
You became my closest friend
Chorus
Soft harmony joins
If I only get this life with you
Then this life's been enough for me
Every road that brought me to your arms
Went where it needed to lead
I don't need forever promised
I don't need to know what's coming
Just give me every day I'm given
And let me spend it loving you
If all I ever get is this...
This life with you
That's more than I could ask for
Verse 2
You've seen me when I'm easy
You've loved me when I'm not
You've known the man I wanted to be
And the man I sometimes forgot
We've had days that felt like nothing
Just work and supper, bills and sleep
Funny how those are the moments
I'd give anything to keep
Your coffee sitting on the counter
Your shoes beside the door
Things I barely even notice...
Till I think of them no more
Chorus
[Pedal steel and gentle fiddle enter; harmony widens]
If I only get this life with you
Then this life's been enough for me
Every laugh and every hard year
Every little in-between
I don't need some perfect story
We've already got something true
I'd take the worst day we've had together...
Over the best without you
If all I ever get is this...
This life with you
I'd choose it every time
Instrumental
[Short, tender pedal-steel passage; fiddle answers]
Verse 3
Someday we'll move a little slower
Someday our hair'll all turn gray
Maybe I'll forget where I left my glasses
You'll tell me twice anyway
Maybe those boys will bring their families
And fill this house again
Maybe we'll sit there in the quiet
Wondering where the years all went
And if your hand is still beside mine
That's all I need to know
I won't ask those years for anything...
Except to let us take 'em slow
Bridge
[Everything falls away except acoustic guitar]
And if I could stand outside my lifetime
See every road I might've known
Every different turn I could've taken
Every place I might've gone
I wouldn't ask which one was easier
Wouldn't ask where dreams came true
I'd only look for one small thing...
Soft harmony enters
Which one leads me back to you?
Pedal steel rises
Then I'd take that road.
Every time.
Final Chorus
[Full band enters warmly; soaring three-part harmonies]
If I only get THIS LIFE WITH YOU
Then Lord, I've gotten more than enough
I got your hand across the table
I got your name inside my heart
I got years nobody promised us
And memories still being made
And if tomorrow gives us forty more
I'll love you every day
But if all we're ever promised
Is the moment we're living through
Then there's nowhere else I'd rather be...
Than this life with you
Harmony climbs
Not another life
Not an easier one
Not a different road to choose
Put me anywhere...
Just let me find you
And I'll know what to do
Outro
[Band falls slowly away until only acoustic guitar remains]
When the whole house gets quiet
And another day's gone through
I'll reach across the darkness...
Just to make sure you're there too
Soft three-part harmony
And I'll thank God again...
For this life with you.
Final acoustic chord