I’ve heard it said
That people come into our lives
For a reason
Bringing something we must learn.
And we are led to those
Who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return.
Well I don’t know if I believe that’s true;
But I know I’m who I am today
Because I knew you.

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a Sun;
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood;
Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better?
But
Because I knew you,
I have been changed for good.

It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime,
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you.
You’ll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart,
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have rewritten mine
By being my friend.

Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind of the sea,
Like a seed dropped by a sky bird
In a distant wood,
Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better?
But
Because I knew you,
Because I knew you
I have been changed for good.

Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better?
I do believe I have been changed for the better.
And
Because I knew you,
Because I knew you,
Because I knew you,
I have been changed
For good.
~ from Wicked.