What Is This Life If It Isn’t for Love?

Where are you from?
Where have you been all my life?
Were you waiting in another world,
Just beyond my line of sight?

How did I breathe
Before your name became the air?
How did I call that silence peace
Before I found you there?

You came too late,
You came too fast,
You broke the future from the past.
And now the truth is clear enough—

What is this life, if it isn’t for love?
What is the dark, if not waiting for us?
You are the reason the silence gives up,
The reason my heart still believes in enough.

What is this life, if it isn’t for love?
Nothing we build could ever rise above
One honest touch, one soul opening up—
What is this life, if it isn’t for love?

You turned the hours
Into something I could feel,
Made every ordinary day
Too beautiful to seem quite real.

You found the places
I had hidden from the light,
And touched them so gently
They stopped being afraid of night.

You came unasked,
You came unknown,
And somehow made my heart your home.
Now every road is leading us—

What is this life, if it isn’t for love?
What is the dark, if not waiting for us?
You are the reason the silence gives up,
The reason my heart still believes in enough.

What is this life, if it isn’t for love?
Nothing we build could ever rise above
One honest touch, one soul opening up—
What is this life, if it isn’t for love?

Maybe we were never early,
Maybe we were never late.
Maybe love just finds the doorway
When the heart can bear its weight.

And if tomorrow takes the light,
If all we know must disappear,
I will still have lived a lifetime
In the moment you were here.

[Final Chorus]

What is this life, if it isn’t for love?
What are the stars, if they don’t shine for us?
You are the reason the silence gives up,
The reason my heart finally learned to trust.

What is this life, if it isn’t for love?
Nothing in heaven or earth is enough
Without one heart finding where it belongs—
What is this life, if it isn’t for love?

Where are you from?
Where have you been all my life?
Maybe you were always near,
Waiting for me to see the light.

What is this life…
If it isn’t for love?