You Don't Know Forever

You laugh at my routine like it’s a prison cell Mock the way I’ve settled down, think you know me so well Yeah, I see you watching with those eyes so full of fire Offering me everything that I’m not supposed to desire

(But listen…)

Sure, the passion’s different now, it’s comfortable and worn Not like those first-date butterflies when love is freshly born But you stand there so confident, thinking that you’ve won Girl, you don’t know forever, you just know the fun

You see boring, I see home You see chains, I see what I’ve grown

You don’t know forever You don’t know what it means To build something lasting through the quiet in between You don’t know forever The way a small hand holds your own The morning coffee ritual, the life that we have grown (You just don’t know…)

Yeah, I wonder sometimes when you’re standing close to me What it’d be like to taste that wild, reckless fantasy But then what? Another thrill? Another empty night? Chasing shadows endlessly, never getting it right

(Think about it…)

My kid’s laugh at breakfast, that’s a high you’ll never reach The way my wife knows all my scars without me having to speak You’re selling excitement like it’s all there is to gain But forever’s got its treasures that you can’t even explain

You see boring, I see roots You see trapped, I see the truth

You don’t know forever You don’t know what it means To build something lasting through the quiet in between You don’t know forever The way a family dinner feels like gold The stories told at bedtime, the hand you get to hold (Yeah…)

Nobody gets to forever anymore They jump ship when it gets real, always wanting more But stable isn’t boring when you know what you’ve got And safe isn’t settling when it’s everything you fought for

So take your temptation and your promises of new I’ve got something deeper than you’ll ever know or do These aren’t chains around my wrist, this is my crown And I’m not giving up my kingdom to burn it all down

YOU DON’T KNOW FOREVER! You don’t know what it means To weather every storm and still believe in all your dreams YOU DON’T KNOW FOREVER! The sacred in the mundane, the beauty in the stay The choice you make each morning just to not walk away (This is forever!)

YOU DON’T KNOW FOREVER! So keep your wild nights and your seductive little games I’ve got a love that’s earned its scars and knows me by my name YOU DON’T KNOW FOREVER! (And you never will…)

You don’t know forever… This is what it means… Yeah…