If we have the chance

Jean-Paul VERNERET

25/5/2003

 

Verse 1

Time may slip away from sight

Winds may rise and start to blow

Still we held on through the night

To the things we feared to show

We built bridges, hand in hand

On the edge of fragile dreams

Far beyond the distant land

Of a future wild and free

 

Bridge

From the journey we will keep

Just the shining mountain view

And the skies so wide and deep

Painted in eternal blue

 

Chorus

If we have the chance

Of a perfect day

We’ll turn every absence

Into endless May

And whatever comes

We won’t be afraid

If we have the chance

Just to say we stayed

 

Verse 2

Skies may change from blue to gray

Autumn winds may start to fall

Still we kept the truth at bay

That we could not name at all

Clocks may lie and time may break

Seasons shatter into dust

Nothing now can ever shake

Hearts that learned at last to trust

 

Bridge

From the journey we will keep

Just the shining mountain view

And the skies so wide and deep

Painted in eternal blue

 

Chorus

If we have the chance

Of a perfect day

We’ll turn every absence

Into endless May

And whatever comes

We won’t be afraid

If we have the chance

Just to say we stayed

 

Verse 3

We reached out and took the day

Before it could slip away

Built our home within the fray

In the heart of the dismay

We broke through the frozen years

Through the winters yet to be

So that nothing disappears

From the path we chose to see

 

Bridge

From the journey we will keep

Just the shining mountain view

And the skies so wide and deep

Painted in eternal blue

 

Chorus

If we have the chance

Of a perfect day

We’ll turn every absence

Into endless May

And whatever comes

We won’t be afraid

If we have the chance

Just to say we stayed