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." 


[Refrão]
 
  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. 


[Refrão]

  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.