Longer - Dan Fogelberg

Longer than there've been fishes In the ocean Higher than any bird ever flew Longer than there've been stars Up in the heavens I've been in love with you. Stronger than any mountain cathedral Truer than any tree ever grew Deeper than any forest primeval I am in love with you. I'll bring fires in the winters You'll send showers in the springs We'll fly through the falls and summers With love on our wings. Through the years as the fire Starts to mellow Burning lines in the book of our lives Though the binding cracks and the Pages start to yellow I'll be in love with you. Longer than there've been fishes In the ocean Higher than any bird ever flew Longer than there've been stars Up in the heavens I've been in love with you I am in love with you...

If we done met when we were younger Would've had more time making memories Even just another summer Could've been more nights we were losing sleep All those sunsets I've seen Would've looked so much better If we were together Yeah, I know we've got forever But I wish forever was longer Than all the stories ever told 'Cause those pages have endings But I can't let you go When we're 99, your hand in mine A whole lifetime of you and me, love Still won't be long enough I wish forever was longer I wish forever was longer I wish seconds felt like hours Wish time wouldn't fly by quite as fast If I could get some kind of superpower It'd be making every minute, every moment last And all those movies I've seen Would've been so much better If we were together Yeah, I know we've got forever But I wish forever was longer Than all the stories ever told 'Cause those pages have endings But I can't let you go When we're 99, your hand in mine A whole lifetime of you and me, love Still won't be long enough I wish forever was longer Forever was longer I wish forever was longer Than all the stories ever told 'Cause those pages have endings But I can't let you go When we're 99, your hand in mine A whole lifetime of you and me, love Still won't be long enough I wish forever was longer Forever was long Yeah, yeah Woah, oh I wish forever was longer

Your glory, Lord, is higher than the skies Your love, the anchor of my life A sound of thanks, all my heart can sing I lift my eyes up to the heavens I fill my heart up with Your praise For You alone have lifted away my chains I just can't keep from laughing I just can't keep from crying out Jesus Christ has captured my soul I'm bursting with His passion I'm lavished in His grace I am no longer bound by shame Have we the Church forgotten who we are? Have we forgotten who we serve? We serve the Almighty Living God Let songs of love come pouring from our hearts Let songs of joy resound both near and far Lets celebrate the goodness of our God So lift your eyes, lift your hands Lift your feet and praise His name Oh, lift your eyes, lift your hands Lift your feet and praise His name Oh, lift your yes, lift your hands Lift your feet and praise His name Lift your eyes, Church, lift your hands Lift your feet and praise his name We just can't keep from laughing We just can't keep from crying out Jesus Christ has captured our souls We're bursting with His passion We're lavished in His grace We are no longer bound by shame

Lucky at love, well maybe so There's still a lot of things you'll never know Like why each time the sky begins to snow, you cry You're faithful to her in your careless way And so you miss her when she's far away But every time you think you've got it straight, you fall You face the future with a weary past Those dreams you banked upon are fading fast You know you love her, but it may not last, you fear It's never easy and it's never clear Who's to navigate and who's to steer And so you flounder, drifting ever near the rocks It's hard to say where love went wrong It's hard to say just when (it's so hard to say) It's hard to walk away from love It may never come again You do your best to keep your hand in play And try to keep those lonesome blues at bay You think you're winning but it's hard to say, sometimes It's hard to say where love went wrong It's hard to say just when (it's so hard to say) It's hard to walk away from love It may never come again Lucky at love, well maybe so There's still a lot of things you'll never know Like why each time the sky begins to snow, you cry Well, you cry Ooh, you still have to cry

Every time we speak, our words betray intentions Insincere inventions that never quite reach the heart So we turn the other cheek and gather our defenses Again, rebuild the fences that just been keeping us apart Waiting out the worst, we keep the best inside us In hopes our hearts can hide us, in hopes our tears don't show And you know we're not the first to try and reach the distance And though we meet resistance, the love between us grows And in the time it takes us to look beyond the lies We could be sailing through each other's eyes And in those stolen moments when love is caught off-guard We see it never had to be this hard Every time we speak, our words betray intentions Insincere inventions that never quite reach the heart So we turn the other cheek and gather our defenses Again, rebuild the fences that just been keeping us apart And in the time it takes us to look beyond the lies We could be sailing through each other's eyes And in those stolen moments when love is caught off-guard We see it never had to be this hard

An only child alone and wild A cabinet maker's son His hands were meant For different work And his heart was known to none He left his home and went his lone And solitary way And he gave to me a gift I know I never can repay A quiet man of music Denied a simpler fate He tried to be a soldier once But his music wouldn't wait He earned his love through discipline A thundering, velvet hand His gentle means of sculpting souls Took me years to understand The leader of the band is tired And his eyes are growing old But his blood runs through my instrument And his song is in my soul My life has been a poor attempt To imitate the man I'm just a living legacy To the leader of the band My brothers' lives were different For they heard another call One went to Chicago And the other to St. Paul And I'm in Colorado When I'm not in some hotel Living out this life I've chose And come to know so well I thank you for the music And your stories of the road I thank you for the freedom When it came my time to go I thank you for the kindness And the times when you got tough And, papa, I don't think I said 'I love you' near enough The leader of the band is tired And his eyes are growing old But his blood runs through my instrument And his song is in my soul My life has been a poor attempt To imitate the man I'm just a living legacy To the leader of the band I am a living legacy to the leader of the band

Met my old lover in the grocery store The snow was falling Christmas Eve I stole behind her in the frozen foods And I touched her on the sleeve She didn't recognize the face at first But then her eyes flew open wide She went to hug me and she spilled her purse And we laughed until we cried We took her groceries to the checkout stand The food was totaled up and bagged We stood there lost in our embarrassment As the conversation dragged Went to have ourselves a drink or two But couldn't find an open bar We bought a six-pack at the liquor store And we drank it in her car We drank a toast to innocence We drank a toast to now And tried to reach beyond the emptiness But neither one knew how She said she'd married her an architect Who kept her warm and safe and dry She would have liked to say she loved the man But she didn't like to lie I said the years had been a friend to her And that her eyes were still as blue But in those eyes I wasn't sure if I Saw doubt or gratitude She said she saw me in the record stores And that I must be doing well I said the audience was heavenly But the traveling was hell We drank a toast to innocence We drank a toast to now And tried to reach beyond the emptiness But neither one knew how We drank a toast to innocence We drank a toast to time Reliving in our eloquence Another 'auld lang syne' The beer was empty and our tongues were tired And running out of things to say She gave a kiss to me as I got out And I watched her drive away Just for a moment I was back at school And felt that old familiar pain And as I turned to make my way back home The snow turned into rain