There You Are

THERE YOU ARE

(Song Version)

Verse 1

“There you are,” my soul sang out the moment I saw you

Like it had been searching through lifetimes just to find you

At that funky little Irish pub in Cambridge back in ’87

Right in the middle of Porter Square, like fate had drawn a circle around us

You were ten feet away with your band, and it hit me

Like a Keith Whitley song come to life

And I thought, Lord, why is this good old boy looking at me like that

Like I was already his

And then I thought, Julie, that ain’t no boy… that’s a man

And oh God—oh hell—I married the wrong one

Chorus

There you are, my soul cried out

That’s the one, I know that now

Across the years, across the veil

Across the lifetimes where we failed

But still came back, still found our way

Through whiskey smoke and blue-eyed flame

There you are, ten feet away

And my whole life changed that day

Verse 2

I never thought of you as anything but the man I was meant to marry

Somewhere, some dimension, some other lifetime

Because we always had been

I had been yours for eternity

A big working man from Tennessee, ten years and a whole generation older

Whiskey and cigarettes rolling off you like a warning and a promise

You thought I was a child, yet thanked God I wasn’t

Long scruffy blond hair slicked back like a bad-boy Conway Twitty

Sideburns rough and scratchy down your jaw

Trying so hard to look like an outlaw

But that wasn’t you at all

And still I wanted to kiss those sideburns

And breathe in that whiskey‑cigarette‑man scent

And eventually, I did

Chorus

There you are, my soul cried out

That’s the one, I know that now

Across the years, across the veil

Across the lifetimes where we failed

But still came back, still found our way

Through whiskey smoke and blue-eyed flame

There you are, ten feet away

And my whole life changed that day

Verse 3

Black sleeveless t‑shirt stretched across that massive chest

Turquoise bolo tie hanging wrong but perfect

Baggy white running pants, tan work boots

You were so not my type

Even though my soul and DNA knew better

I was used to bloodless Harvard boys

But heat rolled off you like volcanic fire

Promising a love I could never resist

And I sat there like a snotty little Boston girl

Pretending I was too good for you

Like I had done in so many lifetimes before

I was in trouble

Because this was fate, this was Divine

Set in motion millions of years ago

We were “us,” and we had always been “us”

Verse 4

I refused to look back, but I felt your blue eyes burning into me

Not cool or calm, but blazing like the center of a flame

Your eyes said, Yes, here I am… and there you are

Now what are we going to do

And with all the arrogance I could fake

I flashed my sad little wedding rings

Clutched my husband’s arm like he was everything

Even though he would never grow into a man

Or a father

Something you were born knowing how to be

Your eyes got big, a little angry

Like, You silly little girl. See if I care.

Do you think those cheap little rings could ever stop me

You mocked me

But you cared

You cared like a man

And I had never known that kind of love

Chorus

There you are, my soul cried out

That’s the one, I know that now

Across the years, across the veil

Across the lifetimes where we failed

But still came back, still found our way

Through whiskey smoke and blue-eyed flame

There you are, ten feet away

And my whole life changed that day

Bridge

I ran like a scared little rabbit

A young mother of two baby girls

Too young, too overwhelmed

Too unready for a love that big

But the Universe took our hands

Four years later

And made it right

You never gave up

You never gave up

You never gave up on us

Final Chorus

There you are, my soul sang out

That’s the one, without a doubt

Across the lifetimes, across the stars

Across the ache of who we are

We found our way, we always do

Because I was mine, and I was you

There you are

There you are

My soul knew you from the start

If you want, I can also shape this into a slower ballad version or a more country‑leaning version with a stronger hook.