It's still you

We met beneath the neon
In a bar on a night like any other
You were twenty-five
I was twenty-three
And neither one of us knew

You looked into my eyes
And something started there
I had my degree, my dreams, my plans
You had a badge you wanted to wear

You were chasing a future
I was chasing mine
And twenty miles between us
Felt like a thousand at the time

You were young and restless
With a young man’s heart
And I was falling deeper
Than I knew how to say from the start

Pre-Chorus

We thought we had forever
We thought we had all the time
We didn’t know the road ahead
Would take you away from mine

Chorus

And then I left for Florida
We went our separate ways
We became the people
We were meant to become

We had our marriages
Our children and our careers
Our victories and our failures
Our beautiful and difficult years

But somewhere underneath it all
Through every changing season
There was still a little piece of us
That never lost the feeling

Verse 2

There was one more rendezvous
Before the years took over
One more taste of something
Neither of us could quite let go of

Then life kept moving
Like it always does
And I thought that chapter
Had become another life

But sometimes you crossed my mind
And maybe I crossed yours too
Two people living separate stories
Still remembering what they knew

Pre-Chorus

Then thirty-three years later
I called you out of the blue
You thought I was a stranger
Someone trying to fool you

Then you heard my voice
And suddenly you knew
Every year between us disappeared
And there was still me and you

Chorus

How can it still be you?
After all we’ve lived through
After thirty-three years
And all the roads that brought us here

I look into your eyes
And something comes alive
Something old
Something new
Something I thought I’d left behind

And when you touch me
I feel everything
I feel young
I feel known
I feel full
I feel alive again

Somehow, after everything…
It’s still you.

Verse 3

Now I lie beside you
And sometimes I can’t believe
That the man I once loved
Is here this close to me

Older now
Wiser now
Weathered by this life
But when you look at me
I see the boy beneath the years

And there’s something in your touch
That remembers who I was
Something in your eyes
That still knows how to see me

I have a thousand thoughts
A thousand dreams of you
But underneath them all
There’s something simple and true

I love you.

Bridge

Maybe we weren’t lost
Maybe we were living
Maybe every road we took
Was part of the becoming

Maybe love can wait
Without ever disappearing
Maybe some things stay alive
Until we’re finally ready to hear them

And now you’re here
And I’m here too
And thirty-three years
Couldn’t change what was true

I don’t want to rush this
I don’t need to force the years
I just want you to know
That I’m not afraid of what I feel

Final Chorus

Because I can imagine more
When I look at you and me
A life beyond this moment
A place where we could simply be

Maybe someday there’s a doorway
With a home that’s ours to fill
Maybe someday all this wanting
Becomes a life we choose for real

I don’t need to know the ending
To know what this could be
And if life gives us the chance
There’s a future I can see

After all the lives we’ve lived
After everything we’ve been through
If there’s a life still left to live
I can imagine living it with you.

Final Verse / Outro

So look into my eyes
The way you did that night
Before the years
Before the goodbyes
Before we knew what life would be

Look into my eyes
And tell me you remember
Because I remember everything
I remember who we were

And now I know something
I never could have known back then—
Some loves don’t disappear.
They just wait.

Until one day
You hear a voice
You haven’t heard in thirty-three years

And suddenly…

You remember.

It’s still you.

It’s still me.

And maybe…

It’s still us.

The musical moment I hear most clearly

The final chorus should be where the music opens up. Up until then, it’s mostly piano and his voice/your voice telling the story. Then on:

“Because I can imagine more…”

the strings come in, the drums become fuller, and the melody rises.

And when it reaches:

“If there’s a life still left to live / I can imagine living it with you.”

everything briefly drops back—almost just piano and voice.

Then:

“It’s still you.
It’s still me.
And maybe…
It’s still us.”