• I've heard this song a thousand times by a thousand different people
    And one thousand times it's fallen short of what I meant to say
    I lived my life not knowing when or how I'd get to meet you
    but somehow without my knowing you just seemed to come my way

    And I'm longing just to see you
    Oh just to glimpse those eyes
    And I'm waiting here to speak, oh, just to you
    But somehow each time I try
    My words all blow away
    Like leaves before a storm
    And all the tender things I had to say
    They never will be heard

    I ask myself just why it is and how I've come to need you
    Can someone out there tell me why you're always on my mind
    And though I'm born an earthbound man to gaze upon the heavens
    Each time at me you smile I feel that in them I can fly

    And I'm longing just to see you
    Oh just to glimpse those eyes
    And I'm waiting here to speak, oh, just to you
    But somehow each time I try
    My words all fall away
    Like raindrops on the shore
    And in my barren state
    I can't stutter out the words

    I sad down here to write a song, of honesty to please you
    Cause maybe if they're writen down, my words won't slip away
    But as I hold this pencil staring down upon my paper
    This single simple chorus is all I can seem to say

    So I'm longing just to see ou
    Oh just to glimpse those eyes
    And I'm waiting here to speak, oh, just to you
    But somehow each time I try
    My words all blow away
    Like leaves before a storm
    And all the many things I had to say
    Won't be spoken not a word

    And I'm longing just to see you
    Oh I'm longing just to see you