For your lights to shine on me For your song inside of me This we bring to you Here I stand so patiently In the shadow of love Time goes by leaving me helpless Just to reach and try To live my life These are my reasons

I will sing, sing a new song How long to sing this song How long, how long, how long How long, to sing this song I waited patiently for the Lord He inclined and heard my cry He brought me up out of the pit Out of the mire and clay He set my feet upon a

I cover the waterfront Will the one I love I'm watching the sea Be coming back to me? Patiently waiting Hoping and longing Oh, how I yearn Where are you?

Ever so patiently Knowing that you wait for me Yeah, you're everything I've ever dreamed of having and It's everything I need from you just knowing that you wait for me What I'd give What I'd do You are not alone tonight Imagine me there by your side

That there's a way out Oh Maria, come slowly Come slowly to me I've been waiting Patient, patiently I didn't care but now I can see

He's got a fool hearted memory That won't let him see That she walked out the door He sits patiently Here every night so it can fool him more Nickels and dimes Memories and wines She's on his mind once again The same old stool

This is the way it's meant to be I know, it's the sigh of the times It's the way that we make things right... When the word is out from the other side She turns around Cause day and night she's waited patiently Now a different kind of world out there Is

I'm waiting patiently Though time is moving slow I have one vacancy And I wanted you to know that You're the one, designed for me A distant stranger, that I will complete I know you're out there, we're meant to be So keep your head up, and make it to me

He's got a fool hearted memory That won't let him see That she walked out the door He sits patiently Here every night so it can fool him more Nickels and dimes Memories and wines She's on his mind once again The same old stool

So, ring, ring, why don't you give me a call? Ring, ring, why don't you give me a call? Ring, ring, the happiest sound of them all Ring, ring, I stare at the phone on the wall And I sit all alone impatiently Won't you please understand the need in me I