Heaven Can Wait

Words & Music:

Jim Steinman

 

G          C    Em            C                 G        C   Em

Heaven can wait and a band of angels wrapped up in my heart.

Em           D                  C                 A7          D

Will take me through the lonely night through the cold of the day.

D7            G

And I know, I know...

Heaven can wait and all the gods come down here just to sing for me.

And the melody's gonna make be fly without pain, without fear.

C                   G                 Bm

Give me all of your dreams and let me go along on your way.

C                   G

Give me all of your prayers to sing

    Bm                                       F

And I'll turn the night into the skylight of day.

F                C             Eb          Bb          F  Fsus4  F

I got a taste of paradise, I'm never gonna let it slip away.

F                C              Eb           Bb              D

I got a taste of paradise, it's all I really need to make me stay

                    G

Just like a child again.

 

Heaven can wait and all I got is time until the end of time.

I won't look back, I won't look back, let the altars shine.

 

And I know that I've been released, but I don't know to where.

And nobody's gonna tell me now, and I don't really care, no, no, no.

I got a taste of paradise and that's all I really need to make me stay.

I got a taste of paradise, if I had it any sooner, you know,

You know I never would have run away from my home.

 

Heaven can wait and all I got is time until the end of time.

I won't look back, I won't look back, let the altars shine.

Heaven can wait, heaven can wait.

I won't look back, I won't look back.

Let the altars shine, let the altars shine.

 




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