[Verse 1]
Ten years ago, we met outside the corner store
You had a borrowed jacket, I had twenty dollars more
We missed the last bus home and laughed beside the sign
That little wrong turn somehow became the best of mine
[Pre-Chorus]
Through cheap apartments, changing jobs, and birthdays on the floor
Every time the world got strange, you opened up the door
[Chorus]
Ten years, twenty years, I’d still choose you
Through the cracked-up plans and the hard days too
If the road bends out of sight, if the old map disappears
I’ll be standing by your side for ten years, twenty years
[Verse 2]
We watched the paint peel off the kitchen in your first place
Shared one cold pizza and a hand-me-down suitcase
You knew the names I never said, the places I was bruised
And when I lost the nerve to stay, you gave me yours to use
[Pre-Chorus]
Some friends are passing weather, here and gone before they land
You’re the steady kind of shelter I can reach for with one hand
[Chorus]
Ten years, twenty years, I’d still choose you
Through the cracked-up plans and the hard days too
If the road bends out of sight, if the old map disappears
I’ll be standing by your side for ten years, twenty years
[Bridge]
Someday we’ll count the silver in the photographs
Argue over who remembers all the details wrong
But I’ll know that every chapter, every scar and every laugh
Was a place I belonged all along
[Final Chorus]
Ten years, twenty years, I’d still choose you
With the whole wide world changing like it always seems to do
When the years turn into stories and the stories disappear
I’ll be standing by your side for ten years, twenty years
Ten years, twenty years, and every year from here
[Outro]
Every year from here
Still my friend, still right here