Chords for Mary Chapin Carpenter - This is Love

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If you ever need to hear a voice in the middle of the night
When it seems so black outside that you can't remember light
Ever shone on you or the ones you love in this or another lifetime
_ And the voice you need to hear is the true and the trusted kind
With a soft familiar rhythm, these swirling unsure times
When the waves are lapping in and you're not sure you can swim well
Here's the lifeline, _ [Am] if you ever need to feel a hand, take up your own
[Bm] When you least expect but want it more than you've ever [C] known
Well baby, here's that hand, baby, here's my [D] voice that's calling _
_ [G] This is _ love, _ _ _ [D] all that ever was and will be, this [G] is _ love
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_ _ _ If you ever need some proof that time can heal your wounds
Just step inside my heart and [C] walk around these rooms where the shadows used to be
You can feel as [G] well as see how peace can hover
_ _ _ Time's been here to fix what's broken with its power
The love that smashed us both to bits, spent its last few [C] hours calling out your name
I thought, this is the kind [G] of pain from which we don't recover
_ [Am] But I'm standing here now with my heart held out to [G] you
You would have thought a miracle was all that got us through
Well baby, [C] all I know, all I know [D] is I'm still standing
_ And this [G] is _ love, _ _ _ [D] all that ever was and will be, this [G] is _ _ love
_ _ [Am] Standing up for you, baby, [D]
standing up for [G] me
And I see [C] you still and there's this [G] catch in my throat and I just swallow hard till it leaves [C] me
There's nothing in this world that can change what we [G] know, still I know I am here
If you ever [C] need a name, _ _ [G] and this is love _
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_ _ If you ever think of me, let it be around twilight when the world has settled down
And the last round of sunlight is waning in the skies, you sit and watch the night descending _ _
A _ car will pass out front with lovers at the wheel
A dog will bark out back and children's voices peel over and [C] under the air
You've been [G] left lost in the remembering
_ [Am] If you ever wish for things that are only in the [G] past
Just remember that the wrong things aren't supposed to last
Baby, it's over and done and rest is gonna [D] come when you let it _
And this [G] is _ _ love, _ _ _ [D] all that ever was and will be, this [G] is _ love _
_ When you [Am] let it fade, if you [D] let it not
This [G] is _ _ love, _ _ [Am] _ all that ever was and can be, this is _ love _
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