Standing There With Me (2nd revision)

I got feedback on the original and 1st edit from 3 different writers groups including this one. The major thread was that more verses and story line were wanted from the original. My 1st revision added a verse, but I still didn't feel 100% about it. The crux of the song's inspiration for me was the very first line, and what it meant to me. But I'd wimped out or was lazy in the first 2 cracks at it as fart as letting the listener in on that secret. This new version adds a final verse that sums it up and gives the song a true ending. That was a problem from the start. Another was that some writers were puzzled by the changing tense of the "standing there" lines in each verse. I didn't have that issue, but maybe that's becuase I knew the untold meaning and where the story went in my head. Now, it finally goes there in the song too. I tweaked a few other bits here and there too.

Standing There With Me

Come on girl, let me wrap my world around you and your faded jeans
Help me build a blue sky for dreaming bigger dreams
When all is said and done, oh darlin' it won't mean a thing
If I can't have you standing there with me

When we met, I tripped right over my tongue
But somehow I made you laugh, and that first lock came undone
And, ever since that day, every day's been a better one
Because I've had you standing there with me

     Life sure can take twists and turns on its way
     Winding through these precious few lucky days

I never really wanted kids until you told me that you did
Now I swear my heart has grown, I feel it bursting through my ribs
A lot of things have changed, yeah this old dog has learned new tricks
Because I've had you standing there with me

We’ve had our sleepless nights, and wiped away some tears
Once or twice I know it felt like way more than our share
Hell, I just can’t imagine getting through these last few years
If I didn’t have you standing there with me

     Life sure can take twists and turns on its way
     Winding through these precious few lucky days

So meet me under a steeple, or with a justice of the peace
At a clearing in the woods, or ankle deep on a beach
It doesn’t matter where, just so long as you’ll be
Standing there with me
No it doesn’t matter where, just so long as you’ll be
Standing there with me

Come on girl, let me wrap my world around you and your faded jeans