Paula Cole – I Don’t Want To Wait

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…

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?

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

You 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

So breathe a little more deeply my love

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 love in every eye…