[Verse 1]
A bang, then stardust in your eyes
A billion years or just this night
Either way it’ll be all right
A blackness, then the light of a million stars
As you slip into in my car
The evening sky strikes sparks

[Chorus 1]
This life, this life and then the next
With you I have been blessed
What more can you expect?

[Verse 2]
At night at my telescope alone
This emptiness I've roamed
Searching for a home
The stars, a brief string of shining charms
Rushing in red out of our arms
Into the drifting dark

[Chorus 2]
This life, this life and then the next
With you I have been blessed
What more can you expect?
This life, this life and then the next
I finger the hem of your dress
My universe at rest
[Bridge]
We reach for starlight all night long
But gravity’s too strong
Chained to this earth we go on and on and on and on and on
Then a million suns cresting were you stood
A beauty in the neighborhood
This lonely planet never looked so good

[Chorus 2]
This life, this life and then the next
With you I have been blessed
What more can you expect?
This life, this life and then the next
I finger the hem of your dress
My universe at rest