Paula Cole - I Don't Want To Wait lyrics

so open up your morning light and say a little prayer for I you know that if we are to stay alive and see the peace in every I she had two babies one was six months one was three in the war of '44 every telephone ring every heartbeat stinging when thought it was God calling her oh would her son grow to know his father CHORUS: i don't want to wait for our lives to be over i want to know right know what will it be i don't want to wait for our lives to be over will it be yes or will it be sorry he showed up all wet on the rainy front step wearing shrapnel in his skin and the war he saw lives inside him still it's so hard to be gentle and warm the years pa**ed by and now he has a granddaughter chorus oh so you look at me from across the room you're wearing your anguish again believe i know the feeling it s**s you into the jaws of anger oh, so dig a little more deeply into my life all we have is the very moment and i don't want to do what his father and his father and his father did i want to be here know so open up your morning light and say a little prayer for I you know that if we are to stay alive and see the peace in every I chorus (2 times) so open up your morning light and say a little prayer for I you know that if we are to stay alive and see the love in every I