Even Then

Description: Brazilian Jazz Bossa Nova https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqbZD7eSWcHYX-mzH3rARjCuCKdXRW8kU&si=7kFGRv7WybbSHjNE Two words. The smallest vow. The hardest test. The measure by which every love that has ever called itself unconditional is finally, irreversibly judged. Even then. It is easy to love in the sunlight. Easy to love when the mountains are steady and the fields are green and the road ahead is clear and paved with all the evidence a heart could ask for. Easy to say my heart belongs to you when belonging feels like warmth and safety and the gentle rhythm of a life unfolding exactly as it should. But even then is not spoken in the sunlight. Even then is spoken in the dark. In the famine. In the bare field. In the moment when the world is falling apart and every reasonable voice says this is where love reaches its limit — and she looks at the limit and steps past it. Even then. When the mountains shake — even then. When the road goes blind — even then. When the dark comes close and the stars go out and the oceans forget the shape of their shores and everything that once seemed permanent reveals itself to be temporary — even then. Especially then. She does not love him only in the versions of life where loving is easy. She loves him in the versions where loving is the only thing she has left — and discovers that it is enough. More than enough. It is everything. Because love that only holds in favourable conditions is not love. It is preference. And preference has an expiration date. But even then has no expiration. Even then is the love that remains after every condition has been removed — after every comfort has been taken, every certainty has crumbled, every earthly reason to stay has packed its bags and left the room. And she is still there. Still standing. Still reaching for his hand. Still singing his name into a silence that the whole world has abandoned. Even then. The two most powerful words love has ever spoken. Not because they are grand. Because they are true. And because the woman who speaks them means every syllable — at the end of the world, at the edge of time, in the famine and in the dark — even then. Even then. My heart belongs to you. Forever here. Even Then [Verse 1] My whole heart is Yours Sewn into Your story Like a thread in grace That cannot be unpulled You planted me deep In the soil of Your love And I bloom where You call I bear fruit in every season [Pre-Chorus] When the mountains shake You still speak my name When the road goes blind I will reach for Your hand [Chorus] I will love You even then I will love You even then When the world falls apart I will still be here I will love You even then I will love You even then My heart belongs to You Forever here [Verse 2] When the dark comes close I will not forget You I will stand by Your side And call heaven to witness If the famine comes If the field lies bare You are still my song You are still my answer [Pre-Chorus] When the mountains shake You still speak my name When the road goes blind I will reach for Your hand [Chorus] I will love You even then I will love You even then When the world falls apart I will still be here I will love You even then I will love You even then My heart belongs to You Forever here [Bridge] At the end of time When the stars go out When the oceans forget The shape of their shores My love will keep speaking My love will keep standing Nothing can unwrite What You wrote in me [Chorus] I will love You even then I will love You even then When the world falls apart I will still be here I will love You even then I will love You even then My heart belongs to You Forever here