This is another gentle song from Kevin Bates SM, that was collected from his album, Whispers, for the Praise to God parish hymn book.
It sounds like a song for Lent, but you could imagine it for a funeral. Willow suggest it for a wedding, but they have always been far tougher than I.
This is a Willow copyright and an MP3 is available at their site but no sheet music. They would still be your first port of call if you needed the sheet music.
PTG at least had the chords this time so no guessing for my backing. It is marked at a tempo of 85, but I took it up to 96.
1 Long have I loved you, for long have I been
Lifted by your love to sing.
Long have I waited to tell you this way,
Just how near I hold you today.
2 Remember the times we both lost our way,
Each on a cross seemed to die.
Remember the morning when rising again,
The world hardly had time to cry.
3 Still we must listen for what is to come.
Loving can never stand still.
Watching and waiting and shaping our way.
Lord, all our story will fill.
© 1985 Kevin Bates SM