It was 8 o’clock on a late August night
The sun was slipping away like a thief
We were walking along hand in hand
Beside the slowly meandering creek

Just an ordinary evening of an ordinary day
Everything neatly arranged
Then I looked to my left, my heart seized in my chest
And in a moment everything changed

Time stood still
Nothing existed except for you
The rest of the world fell away
And it was then that I knew

I took a picture of you inside my head
That I vowed to forever hold
As the evening sun caressed your face
And turned your flowing hair into gold

My thoughts of you as a lover
Seemed to instantly be replaced
By something deeper and richer
And beyond time and space

Time stood still
Nothing existed except for you
The rest of the world fell away
And it was then that I knew

I knew you
And I knew me
And in that moment
I knew we