A Thousand Years

Music has always played a huge part in my life.  I grew up in a house of people who love music and from a young age I too have loved music.  I have a very eclectic taste in music... my iPod has everything from broadway musicals to 70's rock, to praise music, to choir music, to some pop, rock, alternative, and the list goes on.  Throughout my life, music is an ever present thread that continues to weave in and out of my memories.  

There are a couple of songs that have always struck a chord in me, especially while we were trying to get pregnant.  Songs that I couldn't always listen to because they would hurt too much.  

Since we had Ticky Boo, I've been able to sing her the lullaby's I so wanted to sing and those moments are incredible precious to me.  I've never heard a song that really captured "us" though... until now.  

I had heard this song on the radio a couple of times and really liked it.  I thought it was so romantic and sweet and I downloaded it to my phone and put it in the playlist for my trip back to VA.  It came on as I was about an hour and a half into my drive and Ticky Boo was sleeping soundly in the back.  As the music filled my car I really listened to the words and then tears started streaming down my face... this song was absolutely perfect for Stella's birth.  I could see the memory of that night play in my mind as this song played on the radio.  And I fell even more in love with Ticky Boo and this song!   

Thousand Years by Christina Perri

Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave
How can I love when I'm afraid to fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow

One step closer

[Chorus:]
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

Time stands still
Beauty in all she is
I will be brave
I will not let anything take away
What's standing in front of me
Every breath
Every hour has come to this

One step closer

[Chorus:]
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

One step closer
One step closer

[Chorus:]
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more