Carolyn Arends Reaching Lyrics

Reaching Lyrics

There’s a time I can recall
Four years old and three feet
tall
Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar
And both were out of
reach
And later on in my high school
It seemed to me a little
cruel
How the right words to say always seemed to stay
Just out of
reach
Well I should not have thought it strange
That growing causes
growing pains
‘Cause the more we learn the more we know
We
don’t know anything
But still it seems a tragic fate
Living with
this quiet ache
The constant strain for what remains
Just out of
reach

Chorus:
We are reaching for the future
We are reaching for
the past
And no matter what we have we reach for more
We are desperate to
discover
What is just beyond our grasp
But maybe that’s what heaven
is for

There are times I can’t forget
Dressed up in my Sunday
best
Trying not to squirm and to maybe learn
A bit of what the preacher
preached
And later lying in the dark
I felt a stirring in my heart
And
though I longed to see what could not be seen
I still believed 
I guess I
shouldn’t think it odd
Until we see the face of God
The yearning
deep within us tells us
There’s more to come
So when we taste of
the divine
It leaves us hungry every time
For one more taste of what
awaits
When heaven’s gates are reached

Chorus

I believe
that’s what heaven is for 

There’s a time I can
recall
Four years old and three feet tall
Trying to touch the stars and
the cookie jar
And both were out of reach