We were just a couple young hearts,
Like a seed beneath the ground,
No idea what we were growing,
Just glad that love had found us out.
Then the years came up around us,
Roots got deeper every day,
And I learned to chase the sunlight
Every time you looked my way.
We took the storms, we took the weather,
Still somehow we stood together.
We grew tall like a sunflower,
Golden underneath the blue,
I thought I’d spend every season
Standing in that field with you.
I thought roots that deep meant forever,
I thought love could outlive time,
But somebody broke my sunflower
And left the roots alive.
Now I’m standing in the same old field,
But nothing looks the way it used to—
I’d give every tomorrow I’ve got
For one more day beside you.
Then our love became a garden,
Little footsteps filled our home,
Tiny hands reached up between us,
And suddenly we’d both grown.
You would turn your face toward laughter
Like a flower toward the sun,
And I thought we had forever,
Hell, I thought we’d just begun.
We grew tall like a sunflower,
Golden underneath the blue,
I thought I’d spend every season
Standing in that field with you.
I thought roots that deep meant forever,
I thought love could outlive time,
But somebody broke my sunflower
And left the roots alive.
Now I’m standing in the same old field,
But nothing looks the way it used to—
I’d give every tomorrow I’ve got
For one more day beside you.
Then one day the stem was broken,
No warning and no goodbye,
One minute you were here beside me,
Next I’m begging Heaven why.
And they tell me life keeps moving,
That the seasons always change,
But they don’t have to wake each morning
To a world that kept your name.
Now the petals all have fallen,
But your seeds are everywhere,
In the lives we made together,
In the love you left me there.
And I know I have to raise them,
Teach them how to face the sun,
But God, I hate that they’ll keep growing
While your growing days are done.
And sometimes when they’re laughing,
I swear I see your face,
And for one second you’re still with us…
Then the silence takes your place.
We grew tall like a sunflower,
You were everything I knew,
Every dream I ever planted
Had its roots wrapped up in you.
And if somebody asked me, knowing
How our final season ends,
Would I plant that seed all over?
Would I love you all again?
I’d take every storm that found us,
I’d take every tear I knew,
I’d take the day my heart was shattered
Just to have the years with you.
So when my own last summer’s over,
And my final petals fall,
I hope somewhere beyond this lifetime
There’s a field beyond it all.
And you’ll be standing in the sunlight
Like you’ve waited for me to—
And I’ll grow one more sunflower…
Right there beside you.
[Guitar Solo]