This Gift Lyrics - Singles - Chapman Gary

It's Christmas again 

Families and friends 

Chasing from store to store 

Here's last minute me 

Hoping to see 

Just what you're wishing for 

We are more than just friends 

As the gift should show 

Standing here, all at once I know 

This gift I bring 

It's yours for the taking 

Wrapped in love 

It took a lifetime making 

From my heart 

Straight to your longing 

This gift I bring 

Is simple and free 

And comes with a guarantee 

I give you me 

It may not be much 

A smile or a touch 

But it's all yours for all time 

It's here for today 

And won't go away 

'Cause I'm not the leaving kind 

Here's my fragile heart 

It is yours to break 

You may say no 

But that's a risk I'll take 

This gift I bring 

It's yours for the living 

Wrapped in love, it's the gift I'm giving 

From my heart 

Straight to your longing 

This gift I bring 

Is simple and free 

And comes with a guarantee 

From now on 

When the wind is blowing 

And the tears are flowing like rain 

You'll be safe 

In the shelter of this gift 

It's yours for the taking 

Wrapped in love, it took a lifetime making 

From my heart 

Straight to your longing 

I hope you smile 

I guess we'll see 

This gift I bring 

It's yours for free 

It comes with a guarantee 

I give you me 

Words and Music by Gary Chapman and Michael Omartian 

(C) 1997 Riverstone Music (ASCAP), Mandipher (ASCAP) 

arrangement: Michael Omartian 

electric piano/acoustic piano: Michael Omartian 

acoustic guitar: Gary Chapman 

electric guitar: Mark Oakley 

synthesizers: Tim Akers 

bass: Danny O'Lannerghty 

drums: John Hammond 

percussion: Eric Darken 

pedal steel guitar: Tommy White 

orchestra: Nashville String Machine 

orchestral arrangement: Ronn Huff