Gott, der du warst und bist und bleibst (original) (raw)

"Gott, der du warst und bist und bleibst" (God, you who were and are and will be) is a Christian hymn with text by Eugen Eckert and a melody by Herbert Heine. It is also known by the title of its refrain, "Wir haben hier keine bleibende Stadt" (We have no lasting residence here). The song was written in 1993, in the genre Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL). It appears in several regional sections of the German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob, and in other songbooks.