[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]