This Life

A bang then stardust in your eyes

A billion years or just this night

Either way it'll be all right

A blackness then the light of a million stars

As you slip into my car the evening

sky strikes sparks

This life, this life and then the next

With you I have been blessed,

What more can you expect



At night at my telescope alone

This emptiness I've roamed

Searching for a home

The stars a brief string of shining charms

Rushing in red out of our arms

into the drifting dark

This life, this life and then the next

With you I have been blessed,

what more can you expect



This life, this life and then the next

I finger the hem of your dress,

my universe at rest



We reach for starlight all night long

but gravity's too strong

Chained to this earth we go on and on and on

Then a million suns cresting where you stood

A beauty in the neighborhood

This lonely planet never looked so good



This life, this life and then the next

With you I have been blessed,

what more can you expect

This life, this life and then the next

I finger the hem of your dress,

my universe at rest