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I Don’t Want To Wait Lyrics By Paula Cole

    so open up your morning light
    and say a little prayer for i
    you know that if we are to stay alive
    then see the peace in every eye

    refrain
    doo doo doo doooo
    doo doo doo doooo
    doo doo doo doo doooo
    doo doo doo doooo
    doo doo doo doooo
    doo doo doo doo doooo

    she had two babies one was six months one was three
    in the war of ’44
    every telephone ring every heartbeat stinging
    when she thought it was god calling her
    oh would her son grow to know his father

    i don’t want to wait for our lives to be over
    i want to know right now 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

    refrain
    doo doo doo doooo
    doo doo doo doooo
    doo doo doo doo doooo

    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 pass by and now he has granddaughters

    i don’t want to wait for our lives to be over
    i want to know right now what will it be
    i don’t want to wait for our lives to be over
    will it be yes or will it be

    ohhh so look at me from across the room
    you’re wearing your anguish again
    believe me i know the feeling
    it sucks you into the jaws of anger
    ohhh so breathe a little more deeply
    all we have is this very moment
    and i don’t want to do what his father
    and his father and his father did
    i want to be here now

    so open up your morning light
    and say a little prayer for i
    you know that if we are to stay alive
    then see the peace in every eye

    i don’t want to wait for our lives to be over
    i want to know right now what will it be
    i don’t want to wait for our lives to be over
    will it be yes or will it be
    i don’t want to wait for our lives to be over
    i want to know right now 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

    refrain
    doo doo doo doooo
    doo doo doo doooo
    doo doo doo doo doooo
    doo doo doo doooo
    doo doo doo doooo
    doo doo doo doo doooo

    so open up your morning light
    and say a little prayer for i
    you know that if we are to stay alive
    then see the love in every eye

    Artist: Paula Cole

    Year: 1997

    Decade: 90s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 214