This Love Grows
From Winds of Change
This Love Grows
‘This Love Grows’ sits in the penultimate slot, and that position suits it. It is the album’s only track that settles into something more modest in its ambitions, doing exactly what it sets out to do and doing it cleanly rather than reaching for the kind of dramatic arc that surrounds it. The verse stays spare and intimate, clean guitar and a direct vocal, and when the chorus arrives it genuinely swells rather than just gets louder. The line ‘time is a thief, but it can’t take away the love in our hearts’ lands with the kind of plain-spoken conviction that made early John Hiatt stick. Coming after ‘Deb’ and before the closing ‘Winds of Change,’ it functions as a quiet settling-in, the album taking stock before its final statement. It won’t be the track most listeners reach for on repeat, but it does something useful here: it makes the closer feel earned rather than abrupt, and an album that went straight from ‘Deb’ to ‘Winds of Change’ would feel like it skipped a breath.
Lyrics
The years have flown like whispers in the wind Lines on our faces tell where we've been Through the highs and lows, the laughter and the tears Every moment we've shared feels like yesterday here
We've walked through the fire, danced in the rain Built a world together through the joy and the pain
This love grows, stronger than the years Through every joy, every trial, every tear From the first hello to the life we've made This love grows, and it'll never fade
I see the sunrise in the spark of your eyes Every promise kept, no need for goodbyes With every wrinkle, there's a story we've told A bond unbroken as we grow old
We've weathered the seasons, stood hand in hand Built a home together, a life we planned
This love grows, stronger than the years Through every joy, every trial, every tear From the first hello to the life we've made This love grows, and it'll never fade
Time is a thief, but it can't take away The love in our hearts that's here to stay Every step forward, every look behind This love's the treasure we'll always find
This love grows, stronger than the years Through every joy, every trial, every tear From the first hello to the life we've made This love grows, and it'll never fade
This love grows, like the morning light Forever shining, through the darkest night