Lyrics

What Really Matters
Yves Stilmant © 2025

Verse 1
The noise is loud, the days run thin,
We chase the gold and miss the win.
A quiet truth keeps calling home:
You're not alone, you're not alone.
Pre-Chorus
Strip it down to heart and time--
Put your hand back into mine.
Chorus
What really matters is love,
What really matters is time.
Hold on to truth when the shadows arrive--
What really matters is love,
What really matters is time.
Be here, be real, be mine.
Verse 2
We keep the score, we lose the song,
We carry pride that weighs too long.
But mercy learns to walk us through--
I'd trade the world to walk with you.
Pre-Chorus
Strip it down to heart and time--
Put your hand back into mine.
Chorus
What really matters is love,
What really matters is time.
Hold on to truth when the shadows arrive--
What really matters is love,
What really matters is time.
Be here, be real, be mine.
Bridge (half-time, open vox)
Let the light fall on the pieces,
Let the restless finally cease.
If we've got breath, we've got choices--
Hear the better, braver voices.
Final Double Chorus
What really matters is love,
What really matters is time.
Hold on to truth when the shadows arrive--
What really matters is love,
What really matters is time.
Be here, be real, be mine.