Beyond the Final Sunset

Verse

I remember that paper bag, thirty-seven years ago

A handful of licorice and a heart that didn’t know

I was lost in the Christmas magic that your father used to make

Just trying to find my footing in the promises we take.

I’ve spent a lifetime worried I might disappoint your Christmas.

Walking in the shadow of the man you saw in him

But you’re my sweet Bevy, and I’m still the man who tries

To find the Christmas morning that sparks the light inside your eyes.

Pre-chorus

The cameras and the lenses, they’re just moments in a frame

The hard drives and the SD cards are boxes with a name

But there’s a gift I’m holding that the ribbon cannot tie

A building kind of gravity that deepens with the sky.

Chorus

It’s a love that’s growing with every sunrise

A love that’s grounding like the sand and the waves

From the hallways in Spain to the cold German rain

We were wrapped in a hug that outlasted the pain.

I’m choosing you now, and I’ll choose you again

Hand in hand through the years, through the "if" and the "when"

Past every glowing evening, till our mortal time is done

I’ll love you, my Princess, beyond the final sunset.

Verse

Now here in the islands, we’re healing in the heat

With the salt on our skin and the sand beneath our feet

I watched you be brave when the days were long and hard

The surgeries and suffering—they’re just a fading scar.

They only left a hug, pulling tighter than before

I didn't need a holiday to love you any more

But I’ll make it special, I’ll find a way to show

That the man with the Twizzlers will never let you go.

Bridge

It’s more than a feeling, it’s the place where we belong

In the silence of the winter, it’s our own private song

Through the pain and the pleasure, through the thick and the thin

You’re the home where I started, and the place where I end.

Chorus

It’s a love that’s growing with every sunrise

A love that’s grounding like the sand and the waves

From the hallways in Spain to the cold German rain

We were wrapped in a hug that outlasted the pain.

I’m choosing you now, and I’ll choose you again

Hand in hand through the years, through the "if" and the "when"

Past every glowing evening, till our mortal time is done

I’ll love you, my Princess, beyond the final sunset.

Outro

Thirty-seven Christmases... And I’m just getting started.

Beyond the final sunset... Forever and eternally... Yours.