Essie & Paul

Our love is like a river

Overflowing over time, running wild

Filled with life

Our love is complicated, living lies and compromise

Side by side

Speaking our minds

We both made this bed

We can't fit the whole world into it

Tie our threads into a life that fits

If it's gonna make you happy

If it's gonna set us free

If it's gonna hold us steady

Then it's what we need

If it's gonna make you happy

If it's gonna let us be

If it's gonna hold us steady

Then it's what I need

It's what I want

'Cause I want you, I need you

Your voice brought us forever

But with work and fame and family, we use our minds

To light some fires

Our choices bound together

Saw the world, made history

We're living free and honestly

So, we share this bed

Rather than lying more in it

Pull the threads

But just don't set fire to this

If it's gonna make you happy

If it's gonna set us free

If it's gonna hold us steady

Then it's what we need

If it's gonna make you happy

If it's gonna let us be

If it's gonna hold us steady

Then it's what I need

It's what I want

'Cause I want you, I need you

Still their faces come to haunt me

The ghosts I have to share you with

Oh, still to me they're never walking

In this garden that we've built

Oh, if it's gonna make you happy

If it's gonna set us free

If it's gonna hold us steady

Then it's what we need

If it's gonna make you happy

If it's gonna let us be

If it's gonna hold us steady

Then it's what I need

Oh-oh, oh-oh

It's what I want

'Cause I want you

I need you