Chords for We Have This Moment Today [Live]

[Bb] _ _ _ [Dm] Hold tight [Gm] to the sounds of [Bb] the music of living.
_ [Cm] _ _
Happy [F] songs from the [Bb] laughter _ of [Eb] the children that [Bb] play.
And take my hand [Dm] as we run [Gm] through the sweet,
[Bb] fragrant [Eb] meadows, making memories [F] of what _ [Bb] was today.
_ _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _ [Eb] We have this moment [Bb] to hold in our hands and hand [Cm] to touch.
[F] As it slips through [Bb] our fingers like [Cm] _ [Bb] [Eb] sand. _
_ Yesterday's gone and [Dm] tomorrow [A] may [G] never come.
[Cm] But we have this [F]
moment [Bb] today. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] Hear that little [Gm] voice?
It's our [Bb] all grown up daughter.
_ [F] Who now calls home from her home to say,
Mom, [Bb] you got time to listen to something I wrote today? _
_ And you hear that little guy in the other room playing his guitar [Gm] _ real [Bb] loud.
_ [Cm] _ _
[F] He may never be quite [Bb] _ like today.
_ [Cm] [Dm] We [Eb] _ _ have this moment [Bb] to hold in [Eb] our hands [Dm] and hand [Cm] to touch.
[F] As it slips through [Bb] our fingers like [Cm] [Bb] sand.
[Eb] _ _ _
Yesterday's gone and [Dm] tomorrow [G] may never come.
[Cm] But we have [F] this moment _ [Bb] today. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ebm] Does love have a beginning [Bbm] that a meeting is measured by?
[Eb] Does it happen in a moment [Bb] like white lightning from the sky?
_ Can you tell me its dimensions just this wide and [Cm] just this high?
_ When did I start to love you? _
Tell me just [Bb] how many dates it takes for love to really start.
Just how many kisses will turn love into an art?
[Eb] When does the magic moment come to give away your heart?
When did I start to love you?
[Gm] _ _ [F] Is the day we talked of browning the beginning of it all?
Or that time we walked [Eb] the meadow where the fields of corn so [Cm] tall
that we felt like naughty children hiding from our mother's call?
[F]
When did I start to love you?
_ [Bb] I remember just how timidly your first new song you shared.
[Gm] And by the way you grinned, I knew that you were glad you dared.
[Dm] _ [Bb] Although my evaluation wasn't worth much, [Eb] still you cared.
[Bb] _ When did I start to love you?
Was it when I went [Abm] to meet you in a gown of snowy white?
[Eb] Was it when we signed the license and drove off into the night?
Was it when I gave [Bb] myself to you [Eb] and felt that it was right?
_ When did I start to love you?
_ [G] When I feared you wouldn't love me if you knew how I'd been [Dm] wrong
and I'd [Bb] spent that week in misery, [Eb] _ but you'd known [Ab] it all along.
And you loved me because you love me, [Gm] and not because I'm strong.
_ Was it then I came to love you?
_ [Eb] _
Was it when we knew for certain about the baby on the way?
_ Did it start the [Bb] day you told me I looked pretty, shaped that way? _ _
Did something special happen [C] as we waited that last day?
[Eb] _
When did I start to love you?
Did it [Ab] happen when we [F] held her in our arms for the first time?
[Cm] Or was it later when I nursed her, [Gm] this creation, yours and [F] mine?
[Bb] And I knew compared to what we held, this world's not worth a dime.
_ [Eb] When did I start to love you?
[Bb] _ _ There [Eb] were nights we stayed and prayed by babies' fevers burning hot
and we really didn't know if they'd [Bb] make it through or not.
_ Then we faced the dawn's beginning, [Eb] thanking God for what we've got.
[Bb] When did I start to love you? _
Was it rushing to the clinic with a bone in Amy's throat?
[F] Was it nights [Eb] you saw me shivering and wrapped me in your coat?
_ [C] Was it when I cleaned your bureau [D] drawer and saw [Gm] you'd saved my note? _
When did I start to love you?
_ _ [Eb] Was it when I saw you showing Benji how to be a man,
_ how to sheathe his strength [Gm] in weeks,
how to gently take a stand,
how that only [Eb] strength of character can salvage this old life?
_ _ When did I start to love you?
_ [Bb] _ _ When you held me close in silence and there were no words for [Eb] grief
and that line of empty caskets gaped at all I called [Bb] belief
and the amen was so final.
_ I [Eb] had you _ and dared [Bb] to leave.
Was it then I came to love you? _ _
What is the stuff love's made of that can cause the world [Eb] to glow?
Was it that you made the segments that I brought you well and whole? _
[Bb] Was it when I came to recognize the poet in your soul
that I began to [B] love you?
_ _ Oh, it's not of lace and chocolate that valentines are made.
[E] All such things are lovely but _ disintegrate and fade.
_ But love, [B] when once it grows to be, is richer, farther than shade. _ _
[E] I only know I love you.
_ [B] _ _ _ [Ebm] Tender words [Abm] and a gentle touch [Ebm] and _ [G] _
[Db] a good cup of coffee
_ [Gb] _ [B] and someone who loves me [Db] and wants [B] me to stay. _
[Ebm] Hold them near while they're [Abm] here.
Oh, [Em] don't wait [B] for tomorrow [Dbm] to [Gb] look back and wish [B]
for this [G] day.
[Am] _ [G] _ [C] _
Take the blues of the sky and the green of the forest,
_ [Dm] the [G] golds and the browns [C] of the freshly mown hay. _ _
_ Add the pale shades of spring [Am] and the circus [C] of autumn
[Dm] and, my friend, [G] we view _ a lovely [C] today.
_ Sing the [Bb] chorus.
[C] _ [F] We ask, Lord, [C] to hold in our hands and [Dm] to touch [G] as it [F] soaks
[G] [C] our fingers like _ [F] sand.
Yesterday is gone and [Em] tomorrow [A] they can come,
[Dm] but we [G] have this moment [C] today. _
_ [G] _ [Am] _ [Dm] We _ [G] have this moment [C] today.
_ _ [G] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [Dm] We _ all have [F] this _ [Em] _ moment _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [C] today.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _