[ti:I Don't Want To Wait (Album Version)] [ar:Paula Cole] [al:This Fire] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Don't Want to Wait - Paula Cole [00:00.91]So open up your morning light [00:03.56]And say a little prayer for I [00:05.87]You know if that we are to stay alive [00:08.91]And see the peace in every I [00:12.05] [00:34.02]She had two babies [00:35.55] [00:36.65]One was six months one was three [00:39.19]In the war of '44 [00:41.99] [00:44.59]Every telephone ring [00:46.57] [00:47.26]Every heartbeat stinging [00:48.78]When she thought it was God calling her [00:53.18] [00:54.20]Oh would her son grow to know his father [00:58.62] [01:02.78]I don't want to wait [01:03.97] [01:04.79]For our lives to be over [01:07.49]I want to know right know [01:09.80]What will it be [01:11.89] [01:13.60]I don't want to wait [01:14.71] [01:15.57]For our lives to be over [01:18.35]Will it be yes or will it be [01:22.25] [01:23.32]Sorry [01:25.97] [01:35.97]He showed up all wet [01:37.63] [01:38.47]On the rainy front step [01:40.63] [01:41.27]Wearing shrapnel in his skin [01:43.58] [01:46.80]And the war he saw [01:48.44] [01:49.32]Lives inside him still [01:50.94]It's so hard to be gentle and warm [01:55.77] [01:56.43]The years passed by and now [01:58.45]Has He granddaughters [02:01.58] [02:05.05]I don't want to wait [02:06.40] [02:07.07]For our lives to be over [02:09.77]I want to know right know [02:12.28]What will it be [02:14.10] [02:15.99]I don't want to wait [02:17.04] [02:17.97]For our lives to be over [02:20.62]Will it be yes or will it be [02:24.19] [02:25.89]Oh so you look at me [02:28.55]From across the room [02:30.34] [02:31.98]You're wearing your anguish again [02:35.94] [02:37.32]Believe me I know the feeling [02:39.31] [02:40.09]It sucks you into the jaws of anger [02:44.56] [02:47.54]Oh so dig a little more deeply into my life [02:53.35]All we have is the very moment [02:57.46] [02:59.15]And I want don't to do what [03:00.29]His father and his father and his father did [03:03.18]I want to here be now [03:06.65] [03:09.85]So open up your morning light [03:12.46]And say a little prayer for I [03:14.99]You know that if we are to stay alive [03:17.84]And see the peace in every I [03:20.60]I don't want to wait [03:22.00] [03:22.84]For our lives to be over [03:25.49]I want to know right know [03:28.13]What will it be [03:29.67] [03:31.66]I don't want to wait [03:33.73]For our lives to be over [03:36.49]Will it be yes or will it be [03:39.46] [03:42.56]I don't want to wait [03:43.86] [03:44.64]For our lives to be over [03:47.66]I want to know right know [03:49.92]What will it be [03:51.64] [03:53.54]I don't want to wait [03:54.67] [03:55.54]For our lives to be over [03:58.17]Will it be yes or will it be [04:01.71] [04:03.32]Sorry [04:05.30] [04:25.84]So open up your morning light [04:28.52]And say a little prayer for I [04:31.02]You know that if we are to stay alive [04:33.76]And see the love in every eye