EVER WAITING

Words and Music-Joel B. Kirkpatrick, III
Copyright 1990
Key of D

I WAS TRAVELING THROUGH THIS OLD WORLD…
LOOKING FOR A HAND TO HOLD…
LOOKING FOR A ROOF… ABOVE MY HEAD…
AND JUST A LITTLE GOLD…
AS I TRAVELED DOWN LIFE'S HIGHWAY…
MANY THINGS I DID NOT SEE…
BUT THE ONE THING THAT I REALLY MISSED…
WAS A HAND OUTSTRETCHED TO ME.

     ALL ALONG HE HAD HIS HAND OUT WAITING FOR MY HEART TO SEE…
     AS I PASSED HIM BY SO MANY TIMES HE WAITED… PATIENTLY…
     HE'S FORGIVEN… MY IGNORING… ALL THE TIMES HE CALLED TO ME
     HE JUST WALKED ALONG BESIDE ME… EVER WAITING… PATIENTLY.

LIFE'S SO FULL OF MANY WONDERS
GIFTS OF LOVE AND ALL ARE FREE…
BUT WE'RE WRAPPED UP IN IMPORTANT THINGS…
SO BLIND WE CAN NOT SEE…
ALL THE FLOWERS… THAT HE'S PLANTED…
GO UNNOTICED BY THE WAY…
HE IS WAITING THERE SO PATIENTLY…
DID HE CALL TO YOU… TODAY?

     ALL ALONG HE HAD HIS HAND OUT WAITING FOR MY HEART TO SEE…
     AS I PASSED HIM BY SO MANY TIMES HE WAITED… PATIENTLY…
     HE'S FORGIVEN… MY IGNORING… ALL THE TIMES HE CALLED TO ME
     HE JUST WALKED ALONG BESIDE ME… EVER WAITING… PATIENTLY.