... For me 'Lifetime' is the most beautiful song I've ever wrote. I still can't believe it's really me who wrote this one. This song made me feel so proud of myself as a songwriter...
It took me five months to write it. I didn't want to rush it at all, because as soon as I started writing this song, I allready knew it would turn out to be something hugely beautiful. And I was right...
I still remember how I started to write this one: I just had got my new guitar, and I was playing, totally random, just to try it... then I came up with this beautiful, sweet apreggio, out of nothing, that felt like something coming from long time ago... I imediately recorded it, and I start to write. Just right away. It was like I already knew what that song was about, I already could see the whole story... It took me five months because there was a lot to say, and I wanted to say everything, and I wanted it to be perfect... and it is. For me, this song is really, really perfect. It couldn't have been more...
It turned out to be about 'The Notebook', the book and the movie, which I consider as the most beautiful lovestory ever told after my parent's one... I'm gonna write a song about theirs too one day.
lyrics
i still can see
your face when you first saw me
you asked me to dance and smiled
i see it if i just close my eyes
and i still can breathe
the summer air uNder the trees
when you read me poems and hours went by fast
but feels like time never passed away, away
i still can feel
the sparkles of our very first kiss
when you said yOu loved me and i held you tight
and i wouldn't care if i'd died that night
and i still recall
the night when we first made love
when we swore our love would last
and i cried cause in you i trust still today
but then summer ended, my pArents came
and i tried to fight but they took me away
i've been waiting for letters i never read
for the love of two kids i could never forget
so that's why i'm still here
after all these years
cause i look in your eyes and i see
we were always meant to be
i know i've been yours for all time
and darling, you'll always be mine
there's no greatest story tHan you and i
you're my lifetime
i still can feel
my hands shaking when i came back here
in front of that house, with my fav blue dress
you were staring at me, like the first time we met
and i still hear you say
those sweet words of that night by the lake
when we kissed Again, and then i realized
that a love like ours never dies
but then truth took me back to reality
cause it wasn't your bride i was supposed to be
i ran away crying, not knowing what to do
then you pulled me in and said 'just let your heart choose
cause i want us, everyday'
and i never weNt away
cause i look in your eyes and i see
we were always meant to be
i know i've been yours for all time
and darling, you'll always be mine
there's no greatest story than you and i
you're my lifetime
we haD a real life fairytale
and you made me the person that i am today
you're my hopes, my dreams, my reason to live
you're the best thing life could've ever given to me
and there's nothing i would change, nothing i regret
not a moment in our fifty years i want to forget
so before i fade, before i go away
please believe me, i couldn't ask for more
angel, remember, thAt i love you so
cause i still can feel you here, right by my side
though my memory turned back, and took my whole Life
but keep reading me the notebook of you and i
and i'll find my way back to you everytime
cause i look in your eyes and i see
we were always meant to be
i know i've been yours for all time
and darLing, you'll always be mine
our souls belong in this and every other life
i see everything inside your eyes
there's no greatest story than you and i
you're my lifetIme
you're my life time
i still can see
your face whEn you first saw me
credits
from Back To Iris,
released December 29, 2014
Written and performed by Iris
Hi! I'm Iris. I'm 20, and I'm a songwriter. My guitar is my best friend, and Music is my whole life. My lucky number is 11.
My motto is 'If you just believe'. I believe in fairytales, in dreams, in miracles, in wishes, in Music, and I do believe in Love. I'm just one of the many. I'm fearless. And I'm a dreamer. This is everything you need to know about me.
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