and when the evening’s wearing thinnnand i know you’re probably already asleepnnit seems your body’s growin’ coldnnand the days are feeling longer than our weeksnnnnoutside the ground is freezing nownnand december’s coming-on is much too fastnnand as the year is dying outnni hope this winter will not end up as our lastnnnnand i knownnit’s just the pain of growing oldnnit reaches deep to the corners of our soulsnnbut looking back on the fifty years we hadnni couldn’t say that a single one was badnnnni’m on my knees in the nightnni’m praying to the lord abovennoh that he will bless our livesnnoh that he will bless our lovenni’m on my knees in the night, i’m on my kneesnni’m on my knees in the night, i’m on my kneesnnnnand when i know our youth is gonennit’s now safely locked behind our photographsnnand though our lives are harder nownnyou still find the perfect way to make me laughnnnnand when i am a little scarednncause i know that one day one of us will passnni’m sure i shouldn’t think this waynni can’t imagine you not right here by my sidennnnbut our eyes, they are younger than they seemnnwhen i see you, feels like we’re still twenty-threennand looking back way back when i learned your namennfrom that day on, oh i’d do it all the samennnni’m on my knees in the nightnnpraying to the lord abovennoh that he will bless our livesnnoh that he will bless our lovenni’m on my knees in the night, nni don’t know which way we should gonni pray the lord will use us stillnnor that he will call us homenni’m on my knees in the night, i’m on my kneesnni’m on my knees in the night, i’m on my kneesnnnnand when the evening’s wearing thinnnand i know you’re probably already asleepnnthese words will whisper in your earnni’m in love with younni’m in love with you