The Second I Saw You

(album: What A Mess, The Human Mind - 2021)

I remember it so clearly
When I saw your face
Everything in my whole world changed
Flash of lightning in the rain
Like a tidal wave
And your smile swept me away

Ever since I was young I believed
That love is magic
But I always thought it happened over time
Till the moment I met you
And I knew we had it
And I was looking at the meaning of my life
From the second I saw you
I knew
From the second I saw you
I knew

I always thought I'd be alone
And I wasn't sad
It's funny how fast you changed that
I called my Mom when I got back home
Said "Now I know how you felt when you met Dad"

Ever since I was young I believed
That love is magic
But I always thought it happened over time
Till the moment I met you
And I knew we had it
And I was looking at the meaning of my life
From the second I saw you
I knew
From the second I saw you
I knew

You're my Rachel McAdams in About Time
I keep going back
To when you walked into the room
Cause I wanna feel my cold heart catch fire
At the sight of you
It's the best high I've ever had

Ever since I was young I believed
That love is magic
But I always thought it happened over time
Till the moment I met you
And I knew we had it
Cause you showed me it can steal you at first sight
From the second I saw you
I knew
From the second I saw you
I knew
Baby I knew
The second I saw you
Baby I knew
The second I saw you
I knew

In Ancient Greece it was thought that our eyes
Emit beams of light that illuminate what we're looking at
But you proved that to be the opposite of the truth
Because when you opened that door in Nashville in the summer of 2009
The only thing emitting light was you
And at first I was transfixed by how the whole world felt upside down like it had just flipped
But then I remembered that our eyes invert our realities like the righting of a capsized ship
And it occurred to me that you may be the only living being walking upright in an otherwise
Upside down existence
And without even trying I stepped up to the ceiling where you were standing
Iris dilated in the same way my heart was expanding
And in that moment the lonesome isolation of a soul
Still searching evaporated into an entirely new form
Of intoxicated desire
Because love is a wilderness we wander into
Starving
Overwhelmed by the abundance of light
And when you said hello
Your smile shined sharper than a hunters knife
So I took your hand and we carved our initials into the tree of life