Often love ends in sadness It burns and bleeds and breaks before it bends Look at what we've built from all the madness You are my beginning, you're my end It was always you and me I loved you at twenty-three What's the word for how I feel about you now? Feel like Paris on the night When I promised you my life Look forever, you might find Amanda Young lovers covet the beginning They'd feign to find the fire ever fake The lesson that we've learned over and again Is pain and pleasure both are worth the same It was always you and me I loved you at twenty-three What's the word for how I feel about you now? When the kids have gone to sleep And I'm making us a drink Raising babies, chasing dreams Amanda It was always you and me I loved you at twenty-three What's the word for how I feel about you now? When I'm getting old and gray And I'm counting up my days The last word that I'll say Amanda A name so sweet It sings like a melody Brings me peace It brings me peace