The Reckoning How Long chords by Andrew Peterson

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:

   C majorC
I can see the storm descending on the hill tonight

F2
Tall trees are bending to your will tonight

    Am7Am7
Let the mighty bow down

    G+G            F2
At the thundering sound of your voice

   C majorC
I can hear the howling wind and feel the rain tonight

F2
Every drop a prophet in your name tonight

    Am7Am7
And the song that they sing

   G+G
It is washing me clean,

Chorus:

  C majorC      E minorEm     F2                F2 Fadd9Fadd9 F2 Fadd9Fadd9
But how long how long how long until this curtain is lifted?

  C majorC    E minorEm                   F2
How long how long is this the song that we sing?

  GsusGsus           C majorC   F2   C majorC   F2
How long until the reckoning?

Verse 2:

   C majorC
And I know you hear the cries of every soul tonight

F2
You see the teardrops as they roll tonight

     Am7Am7
Down the faces of saints

     G+G            F2
Who grow weary and faint in your fields

    C majorC
And the wicked roam the cities and the streets tonight

  F2
But when the God of love and thunder speaks tonight

 Am7Am7             G+G
I believe You will come Your justice be done

Chorus:

Chorus Tag:

C/EC/E  F2
Oh the reckoning

Bridge:

    A minorAm
You are holiness and grace

    E minorEm
You are fury and rest

    F2
You are anger and love

   G+G
You curse and you bless

    A minorAm
You are mighty and weak

    G/BG/B
You are silence and song

    C majorC
You are plain as the day

       F2
But you have hidden your face--

    A minorAm    G+G
For how long? How long?

Verse 3:

     C majorC
And I am standing in the stillness of the reckoning

   F2
The storm is past and rest is beckoning

    A minorAm
Mighty God, how I fear you

   G+G           F2
How I long to be near you, O Lord

Final Chorus:

  C majorC    E minorEm    F2               F2 Fadd9Fadd9 F2 Fadd9Fadd9
How long how long how long until the burden is lifted?

  C majorC     E minorEm             F2
How long how long is this the song that we sing?

  F2
How long until the reckoning?

   C majorC   E minorEm   F2                   F2 Fadd9Fadd9 F2 Fadd9Fadd9
And I know I know I know that I don't know what I'm asking

    C majorC   E minorEm             F2
But I long I long to look you full in the face

   C majorC
I am ready for the reckoning