How Long - Derrol Sawyer
[Verse 1]
C G
How long, will they wait?
Am
Don't they want to walk through
F
that beautiful gate
C G
That Jesus is goin to swing back
Am F
on it's hinges, one day
C G C F G
that Jesus is going to swing wide, one day
[Verse 2]
C G
Are they really having fun?
Am F
or just tryin' to drown out the voice
C G
of the one, calling softly, "Come to Me,
Am F
You've been to long on the run."
C G C F G
Calling softly, "Come to Me, I'm the One."
[Chorus]
F G
There are so many who care, saying,
C Bm Am
"Yes, I want to be there.
F G
(But) Life right here right now is so grand."
C Bm Am
They're like children playing in the sand.
F G
Their carefully fashioned worlds will stand,
F G
till the first storms come.
[Verse 3]
C G
I have found I have friends,
Am
and there are many I don't know
F
walking down a dead end.
C G
Saying, "Everything looks fine to me."
Am F
While they're asleep to the warning God sends.
C G
Saying, "Everything looks fine to me,
C F G
no crisis impends."
[Verse 4]
C G
Was it so, long ago,
Am F
I thought I could wait because I'd know,
C G
When the winds of strife were let go.
Am F
That isn't so, Oh no.
C G
Because people who wait too long,
C F G
just won't go.
[Chorus]
F G
There are so many who care, saying,
C Bm Am
"Yes, I want to be there.
F G
(But) Life right here right now is so grand."
C Bm Am
They're like children playing in the sand.
F G
Their carefully fashioned worlds will stand,
F G
till the first storms come.
Words and music by Craig Gorton