Until Rest of My Life

[Intro] (Slow, echoing acoustic picking, sounding like a vast distance) (A single, slow foot stomp hits like a heartbeat) (Deep, trembling male baritone voice, almost a whisper) Lord, I’m asking for a favor. Just this once. [Verse 1] (Acoustic guitar and a weeping pedal steel) Half a world away, where the morning breaks new There's an unbroken heart and a soul so true She’s looking at a sky full of innocent dreams While I’ve spent a lifetime coming apart at the seams She’s a different kind of beautiful, untainted by the years And I’m reaching out to her across an ocean of fears. [Pre-Chorus] (Bass drum kicks in, tension and anxiety build in the voice) I look at my hands, I look at my past I’m terrified to hold something built to last... I know the damage that a reckless man can do... [Chorus] (Full band drops in: sweeping, emotional, powerful Country Rock) Lord have mercy on a weathered man! Don’t let me ruin the best thing in Your plan! I’ve failed before, I’ve got the scars to show But she’s the purest kind of love that I will ever know! I’m scared to death, but I’m hoping she’s the one Let me hold her in the light 'til my dying sun. Lord, have mercy... let us be together when the day is done. [Verse 2] (Music strips back down, intimate and tender) Every word she speaks is a breath of clean air She don’t know the weight of the crosses I bear She looks at the future and she sees an open door I’ve never met a woman like this before. But the ghost of my mistakes is whispering in the night Telling me I ain't worthy to be standing in her light. [Pre-Chorus] (Bass drum kicks in, tension builds) I look at my hands, I look at my past I’m terrified to hold something built to last... I know the damage that a reckless man can do... [Chorus] (Massive, emotional, soaring vocals) Lord have mercy on a weathered man! Don’t let me ruin the best thing in Your plan! I’ve failed before, I’ve got the scars to show But she’s the purest kind of love that I will ever know! I’m scared to death, but I’m hoping she’s the one Let me hold her in the light 'til my dying sun. Lord, have mercy... let us be together when the day is done. [Bridge] (Music drops. Just a heartbeat drum and a crying guitar) (Vocals are raw, direct, pleading to the heavens) I swear I’ve learned my lesson from the bridges that I burned. I’ll give her every ounce of the love she has earned. If You bridge this ocean, if You bring her to my side... I will guard her with my life until the day I die. Until the day I die! [Guitar Solo] (A soaring, emotional slide-guitar solo—sounding like a desperate, hopeful prayer) [Outro] (Music fades to just soft acoustic strumming) (Vocals are exhausted but peaceful) Half a world away. Please, Lord... Let her be the one. (A warm, lingering acoustic chord rings out and slowly fades) [End]