This is Love

[Verse 1] away, the sun keeps setting, 'though we try to hold it back. Away, the time turns tables from the tree into the ash. Away, the night is coming on, a grave of midnight black from the dying of the day. [Chorus] but this is love, that the dark will make us hold each other this is love, that the ashes never are the end, this is love, that the day is coming back to us this is love, this is love, this is love. [Verse 2] Silver hairs will have their way despite the television claims, and the sight of beauty fading from the pictures on the page, leaves us groaning if we'll ever hear that dawnlight serenade, all things rejoicing with the day [Chorus] but this is love, that the gray will never change our color this is love, that the coming sight won't leave us blind, this is love, that the day is coming back to us this is love, this is love, this is love. [Verse 3] And even when the curtain tears and all is dark and without hope we know this bond of love we hold will never let us go in the mystery of faith we recognize this truth is firm, one day together we'll be home. [Chorus] And even when the curtain tears and all is dark and without hope we know this bond of love we hold will never let us go in the mystery of faith we recognize this truth is firm, one day together we'll be home. this is love, as the future learns to love the past this is love, when the pain is understood this is love, when the evening draws us near to home, this is love, this is love, this is love.