[ti:This Is Love*(Album Version)] [ar:Mary Chapin Carpenter] [al:Stones in the Road] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.32]This Is Love*(Album Version)—Mary Chapin Carpenter [00:04.76](Mary Chapin Carpenter) [00:05.73] [00:21.13]If you ever need to hear a voice in the middle of the night [00:24.82]When it seems so black outside that you can't remember [00:28.80]Light ever shone on you or the ones you love in this or another lifetime [00:36.42] [00:37.42]And the voice you need to hear is the true and the trusted kind with a soft [00:42.42]Familiar rhythm in these swirling unsure times when the waves are lapping in [00:47.98]And you're not sure you can swim well here's the lifeline [00:52.77]If you ever need to feel a hand take up your own [00:57.71]When you least expect but want it more than you've ever known [01:01.90]Baby here's that hand and baby's here's my voice that's calling [01:08.40] [01:09.22]This is love all that ever was and will be [01:17.21]This is love [01:21.24] [01:26.24]If you ever need some proof that time can heal your wounds just step [01:30.75]Inside my heart and walk around these rooms; where the shadows used to be [01:37.00]You can feel as well as see how peace can hover [01:41.12] [01:42.30]Time's been here to fix what's broken with its power and the love that [01:46.93]Smashed us both to bits spent its last few hours calling out your name [01:51.92]And I thought this is the kind of pain from which we don't recover [01:57.92]But I'm standing here now with my heart held out to you [02:02.30]You would have thought a miracle was all that got us through [02:05.80] [02:06.31]Well baby all I know all I know is I'm still standing [02:13.18]And this is love all that ever was and will be [02:21.18]This is love standing up for you baby standing up for me [02:30.49]And I see you still and there's this catch in my throat; [02:34.81]And I just swallow hard till it leaves me [02:38.43]There's nothing in this world that can change what we know [02:42.06]Still I know I am here if you ever need me [02:48.24] [02:48.93]And this is love [02:52.53] [03:29.82]If you ever think of me let it be around twilight when the world has [03:35.20]Settled down and the last round of sunlight is waning in the sky as you [03:41.09]Sit and watch the night descending [03:45.09] [03:46.10]A car will pass out front with lovers at the wheel a dog will bark out [03:52.09]Back and children's voices peal over and under the air you've been there [03:58.28]Lost in the remembering [04:01.41] [04:02.10]If you ever wish for things that are only in the past [04:06.34]Just remember that the wrong things aren't supposed to last [04:10.34]Baby it's over and done the rest is gonna come when you let it [04:17.10]And this is love all that ever was and will be [04:25.10]This is love when you let it baby if you let it now [04:33.03]This is love all that ever was and can be [04:40.61]This is love