I Don't Want To Wait (Album Version)-Paula Cole

[00:00.88]i don't want to wait [00:00.99] [00:01.21]So open up your morning light [00:03.83]And say a little prayer for I [00:06.16]You know that if we are to stay alive [00:09.26]And see the peace in every I [00:15.70] [00:34.02]She had two babies [00:36.56]One was six months one was three [00:39.03]In the war of '44 [00:44.60]Every telephone ring [00:47.27]Every heartbeat stinging [00:49.43]When she thought it was God calling her [00:54.99]Oh would her son grow to know his father [00:59.40] [01:02.72]I don't want to wait [01:04.95]For our lives to be over [01:08.24]I want to know right know [01:10.50]What will it be [01:13.50]I don't want to wait [01:15.24]For our lives to be over [01:18.61]Will it be yes or will it be [01:23.01]Sorry [01:29.07] [01:35.72]He showed up all wet [01:38.45]On the rainy front step [01:41.30]Wearing shrapnel in his skin [01:46.52]And the war he saw [01:49.51]Lives inside him still [01:51.37]It's so hard to be gentle and warm [01:56.61]The years passed by and now [01:59.13]He has granddaughters [02:02.66] [02:04.80]I don't want to wait [02:06.79]For our lives to be over [02:09.98]I want to know right know [02:12.38]What will it be [02:15.92]I don't want to wait [02:18.56]For our lives to be over [02:20.94]Will it be yes or will it be [02:25.25] [02:26.20]Oh so you look at me [02:28.75]From across the room [02:32.05]You're wearing your anguish again [02:37.44]Believe me, I know the feeling [02:40.16]It sucks you into the jaws of anger [02:47.75]Oh, so dig a little more deeply into my life [02:53.53]All we have is the very moment [02:59.13]And I don't want to do what [03:00.43]His father and his father and his father did [03:03.19]I want to be here now [03:07.25] [03:10.13]So open up your morning light [03:12.58]And say a little prayer for I [03:15.08]You know that if we are to stay alive [03:18.10]And see the peace in every I [03:20.50] [03:20.86]I don't want to wait [03:23.14]For our lives to be over [03:25.83]I want to know right know [03:28.17]What will it be [03:31.51]I don't want to wait [03:33.74]For our lives to be over [03:36.47]Will it be yes or will it be [03:42.45]I don't want to wait [03:44.71]For our lives to be over [03:47.51]I want to know right know [03:50.05]What will it be [03:53.40]I don't want to wait [03:55.36]For our lives to be over [03:58.65]Will it be yes or will it be [04:03.49]Sorry [04:12.61] [04:25.91]So open up your morning light [04:28.58]And say a little prayer for I [04:31.16]You know that if we are to stay alive [04:34.27]And see the love in every eye [04:41.21]