Mindless Love

You held my hand on the first day of school
Told me the world was mine if I tried
You kissed my forehead and whispered forever
Said God would be with me, whatever the tide
I watched you dance in the kitchen on Sundays
Heard you pray every night by your bed
Now I sit in this chair next to someone
Who wears your face but has forgotten what you said

The clock keeps turning, the pages keep falling
I'm reaching for you but you're somewhere I can't go

This is mindless love
When the ones who taught you heaven
Can't remember your name
This is mindless love
When forever slowly empties
And the promises fade like rain
But somewhere in the silence
Somewhere in the letting go
There's a love that never wanders
A love you'll always know
Even here in mindless love

I have children of my own now
I tell them the same things you told me
I teach them to pray and to trust in the morning
I kiss them goodnight and I make them believe
Someday they'll sit where I'm sitting
Holding a hand that once held all their world
And maybe they'll understand what I'm feeling
This beautiful, heartbreaking, holiest hurt

The years are a river, they carry us onward
To shores we can see but don't know how to name

You don't know my name today
But I remember every grace
Every bedtime, every prayer
Every light upon your face
And maybe love was never memory
Maybe love was never time
Maybe it lives past every ending
In a place we cannot find

And He finds you there
He finds you there

This is mindless love
When the ones who taught you heaven
Have forgotten the way home
This is mindless love
But God still knows your number
God still knows your name
He walks you through the forgetting
He carries what remains
He loves you in the wandering
He holds you in the haze
He never loses anyone
Not even in the maze

You kissed me goodnight and made forever promises
He keeps them all
You told me that God was so great
He still is
Rest now, rest now
He's got you
Even here
Especially here