I Want To Live Lyrics - John Denver

There are children raised in sorrow 

On a scorched and barren plain 

There are children raised beneath the golden sun 

There are children of the water 

And children of the sand 

And they cry out through the universe 

Their voices raised as one 

I want to live I want to grow 

I want to see I want to know 

I want to share what I can give 

I want to be I want to live 

Have you gazed out on the ocean 

Seen the breaching of a whale? 

Have you watched the dolphins frolic in the foam? 

Have you heard the song the humpback hears five hundred miles away 

Telling tales of ancient history of passages and home? 

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I want to live I want to grow 

I want to see I want to know 

I want to share what I can give 

I want to be I want to live 

For the worker and the warrior the lover and the liar 

For the native and the wanderer in kind 

For the maker and the user and the mother and her son 

I am looking for my family and all of you are mine 

We are standing all together 

Face to face and arm in arm 

We are standing on the threshold of a dream 

No more hunger no more killing 

No more wasting life away 

It is simply an idea 

And I know its time has come 

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I want to live I want to grow 

I want to see I want to know 

I want to share what I can give 

I want to be I want to live