I Don't Wanna Wait Lyrics - 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... 

She had two babies, one was six, 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 live 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... 

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 

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? 

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...