Oh Sweet Longing Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I dreamed of you in white dress and garlands

[?] golden to give you away

With Riesling and huckleberries gracing the table

Teaching the children to laugh and to pray



[Verse 2]

I grieved for you in the hills of Sienna

I called out your name to the great North Sea

I reached for your hand in a snowfield near Gardner

My longing for you always brought me to me



[Chorus]

Oh, sweet longing

I drink from a cup that will never be filled

Oh, sweet longing

I long for you now and I always will

Always will



[Verse 3]

From the foot of a redwood I looked up in wonder

From the side of a canyon in fresh fallen snow

On the bank of a mountain stream I heard you calling

I know I must follow wherever you go



[Chorus]

Oh, sweet longing

I drink from a cup that will never be filled

Oh, sweet longing

I long for you now and I always will

Always will



[Verse 4]

I live in the hope you stir up inside me

Filling my heart and filling my eyes

Like a river love flows to the valley below me

I stand on a mountain and hear my own cry



[Verse 5]

I believe in old souls, I believe in forever

I believe that this moment is all we can see

I believe in the one who calls lovers forward

My longing for love always brings me to me



[Chorus]

Oh, sweet longing

I drink from a cup that will never be filled

Oh, sweet longing

I long for you now and I always will, always will