I spent my life chasing distant signs
Counting every loss as wasted time
I thought love waited where the road would end
A final place, a reason to begin
Then you became the reason I would stay
Not at the finish, but along the way
You never asked me to become someone new
You only made me want to walk with you
I don't need a perfect life to call it mine
I just need your hand reaching back for mine
It was never about the top
Never about how far we'd climb
It was always having you beside me
When I finally reached the other side
And if tomorrow brings a harder road
I'll take your hand and carry what we know
I don't need a perfect sky above
I just need you, and that's enough
I want the days that make us laugh too loud
The stupid fights we'll never talk about
The little things that only we will know
The private jokes that follow where we go
I want to meet the person you'll become
And let you see the changes in someone
Who doesn't have to hide behind his pride
Because you make every version feel alive
I don't want forever if forever has to shine
Give me every ordinary day if they're yours and mine
It was never about the top
Never about how far we'd climb
It was always having you beside me
When I finally reached the other side
And if tomorrow brings a harder road
I'll take your hand and carry what we know
I don't need a perfect sky above
I just need you, and that's enough
So let the whole world change its shape
Let every plan we made escape
If all we have is where we stand
I'll still be reaching for your hand
I don't need a crown
I don't need a name
I don't need the world
To know we won this game
If I get there with you
Then I got there right
It was never about the top
It was never about the view
It was every road I had to walk
That somehow led me back to you
And when our brightest days are gone
I'll love the ones we're still moving on
Through every change, through every part
I'll choose you with the same damn heart
It was never about the top
It was never about the end
It was always having someone
I would choose again and again
And if this life is all we get
Then let me spend it without regret
I don't need the perfect life to call it love
I just need you beside me
When we get there