How Does a Moment Last Forever

This is the Paris of my childhood
These were the borders of my life
In this crumbling, dusty attic
Where an artist loved his wife

Easy to remember
Harder to move on
Knowing the Paris of my childhood
Is gone

How does a moment last forever?
How can a story never die?
It is love we must hold on to
Never easy but we try

Sometimes our happiness is captured
Somehow a time and place stand still
Love lives on inside our hearts
And always will

Minutes turn to hours
Days to years then gone
But when all else has been forgotten
Still our song lives on

Maybe some moments weren't so perfect
Maybe some memories not so sweet
But we have to know some bad times
Or our lives are incomplete

Then when the shadows overtake us
Just when we feel all hope is gone
We'll hear our song and know once more
Our love lives on

How does a moment last forever?
How does our happiness endure?
Through the darkest of our troubles
Love is beauty, love is pure

Love pays no mind to desolation
It flows like a river through the soul
Protects, proceeds and perseveres
And makes us whole

Minutes turn to hours
Days to years then gone
But when all else has been forgotten
Still our song lives on

How does a moment last forever?
When our song lives on