After All These Years Lyrics by Michael Crawford

Zacharias turns away from Gabriel
for a moment to meditate on his
own private thoughts. He is hesitant
to believe that what Gabriel has told
him will actually happen

ZACHARIAS: How can I be certain
How can I know for sure
That this thing I've prayed a
lifetime for
Is finally coming true?

Is this just wishful thinking?
Vain thoughts of a desperate man?
I want to believe for the answer
But I'm afraid to hope again

Can it be that I will see
Fulfillment of the dream
I've held in me?
Can it be that I will know
An answer to the hope
I hesitate to show?
After all these years
After all these years

So much time has passed
I thought that my life was set
I was sure it would not happen
If it had not happened yet

Not that I didn't believe
Didn't believe God could
It wasn't an impossibiltiy
I didn't think it would happen
to me
After all these years

Can it be that I will see
Fulfillment of the dream
I've held in me?
Can it be that I will know
An answer to the hope
I hesitate to show?
After all these years
After all these years
After all these years
After all these years