Never Once Left My Side

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Two kids in a hallway, so long ago, A question half-asked that I'd never know. Late for my class, and we drifted apart, But somewhere God kept a place in each heart. Fifty long years down a winding old road, Two lives, two stories, two burdens to hold. [Chorus] And you found me again, oh what grace from above, A faith that was patient, a slow-burning love. Through every long night, every valley of fear, You held to your promise and always stayed near. [Verse 2] You thought I was taken, but heaven knew best, December we stood, and our hands were both blessed. Then came the storm and the hospital lights, The waiting, the surgeries, all the hard nights. But there in the corner, you never once left, My rock and my shelter through all of the rest. [Chorus] And you found me again, oh what grace from above, A faith that was patient, a slow-burning love. Through every long night, every valley of fear, You held to your promise and always stayed near. [Bridge] Two hearts now near eighty, still burning so bright, A Valentine baby, November's soft light. Charlie, my Charlie, God gave us the time. [Verse 3] So here's to the years that we still get to share, A hand I can reach for, a strength always there. The best kind of love is the kind that will wait, That trusts in the Lord and believes it's not late. Charlie, I love you, through joy and through pain, I'd wait fifty more just to find you again. [Outro] Charlie, my Charlie, forever is true, Every breath that I've got, I'm still choosing you.