[Verse 1: Matthew Thiessen & Robert Gay]
All of the animals
In the woods outside your parents house
In Connecticut
And all of the fruit trees
Shining in the sun wonderfully alive

[Chorus: Thiessen & Gay]
I promise you I
I won’t say goodbye
I want all the world to know your mother’s triumph
Whoa oh
We should carve our names into an old dead tree trunk
No one has to know
'Cause oh
A matter of fact
We’ve gotta go
This will last forever if we never dare let it fade

[Verse 2: Thiessen]
Beautiful furniture
Sought out long ago by a father’s ghost
When all of the fruit trees
We're shining in the sun
Wonderfully alive

[Chorus: Thiessen/Thiessen & Gay]
I promise you I
I won’t say goodbye
I want all the world to know your mother’s triumph
Whoa oh
We should carve our names into an old dead tree trunk
Buried in the snow
'Cause oh
A matter of fact
We've gotta go
But this will last forever if we never dare let it fade

[Post-Chorus: Thiessen & Gay]
Fade away
This will last forever if we never dare let it fade
Fade away
This will last forever if we never dare let it fade

[Outro: Thiessen]
We should carve our names into an old dead tree trunk
We should carve our names into an old dead tree
I want all the world to know your mother's triumph
We should carve our names into an old dead tree