Emerson, If You Take My Hand

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I saw you by the library doors Balancing coffee, books, and keys You laughed when half the papers hit the floor Then looked straight over at me I learned your order at the café The table by the window in the back We traded notes on Tuesdays after class And somehow never hurried back [Pre-Chorus] Between the lecture halls and late-night walks You turned the ordinary into ours [Chorus] Emerson, if you take my hand I’ll meet you anywhere on campus From the old stone steps to the football stands You’re the best thing this place has given us I’m Luke, just trying to say it right I want your days beside my days Emerson, you make this college life Feel like the beginning of forever in a thousand little ways [Verse 2] You saved me a seat in economics I saved you the last chocolate bar We missed the bus outside the student center And called it lucky where we are Your sweatshirt on my dorm-room chair Your name lighting up my phone Every crowded hallway disappears The second I’m walking you home [Pre-Chorus] With every deadline, every changing view I keep finding my way back to you [Chorus] Emerson, if you take my hand I’ll meet you anywhere on campus From the old stone steps to the football stands You’re the best thing this place has given us I’m Luke, just trying to say it right I want your days beside my days Emerson, you make this college life Feel like the beginning of forever in a thousand little ways [Bridge] Someday these buildings will be memories The posters peeled, the seasons gone But I’ll remember how you looked at me And know where my whole heart belongs [Final Chorus] Emerson, come and take my hand We’ll make a home wherever life lands Past the old stone steps and the football stands I’ll choose you just the way I am I’m Luke, and now I’m saying it plain No classroom could teach me this Emerson, through every turn and change You’re the future I don’t want to miss [Outro] So meet me by the library doors I’ll be the one with coffee for two Emerson, this whole wide college world Feels smaller when I’m next to you