Verse
I knew you when the summers lasted forever,
Barefoot down those streets we used to know,
You were ribbons, scraped-up knees and laughter,
I was just a boy who watched you go.
Never had the nerve to say I loved you,
Maybe I was much too young to know,
But something in my heart was always certain—
Wherever you were, part of me would go.
Verse
Then school bells turned to dances in the gymnasium,
Friday nights and names carved into desks,
I watched you walking home with someone different,
And learned how much a heart can leave unsaid.
Then eighteen came and scattered us like autumn,
Different towns and different roads ahead,
You went chasing dreams across the distance,
And I kept chasing mine, and loving you instead.
Pre-Chorus
Years have a way of moving on
While something true stays where it was.
Chours
And there’s still time for us,
After all these years between us,
After all the roads that never seemed to meet.
There’s still time for us,
For the words we never spoke then,
For the love that somehow never missed a beat.
We may not have forever
Like we dreamed when we were young,
But forever isn’t measured
By the years already gone.
If fate has brought you back to me
When evening shadows come
There’s still time,
There’s still time for us.
Verse
I saw your name from time to time in passing,
Heard you found somebody, settled down,
I wore a ring and built a life around me,
Made a home on my own side of town.
We loved the ones we promised we would stay with,
And meant those promises when they were made,
But time can change the plans we thought were certain,
And sometimes even good things fade away.
Verse
Then one day, after half a life had vanished,
There you were, as though no time had passed,
A little silver shining in your hair now,
But those eyes could take me straight back to the past.
We talked until the daylight turned to evening,
About the lives we lived and what they cost,
And somewhere in the space between our stories
I knew that what I’d carried wasn’t lost.
Pre-Chours
Maybe love was never late,
Maybe it was waiting here for us.
Chorus
And there’s still time for us,
After all these years between us,
After all the roads that never seemed to meet.
There’s still time for us,
For the words we never spoke then,
For the love that somehow never missed a beat.
We may not have forever
Like we dreamed when we were young,
But forever isn’t measured
By the years already gone.
If fate has brought you back to me
When evening shadows come
There’s still time,
There’s still time for us.
Bridge
We can’t go back and be those children,
Can’t rewrite a single yesterday,
And I wouldn’t trade the lives that made us
For a chance to take the long way away.
Every road that kept us separated,
Every goodbye, every door that closed,
Maybe they were only leading
To the place where both our hearts already know.
Chorus
There’s still time for us,
Maybe more than we were given
When we were young enough to think time had no end.
There’s still time for us,
Not to start our lives all over,
Just to finally start the life we never had back then.
We don’t need forever,
We just need whatever comes,
Every morning we awaken,
Every setting of the sun.
And if twilight is the time
When two old roads become as one
There’s still time,
Oh, there’s still time,
After everything we’ve done…
There’s still time for us.
