I Don't Want To Wait

So open up your morning light,And say a little prayer for IYou know that if we are to stay aliveThen see the peace in every eye...She had two babies, one was six months, one was threeIn the war of '44...Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stingingWhen she thought it was God calling herOh, 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 beI 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 stepWearing shrapnel in his skinAnd the war he saw lives inside him still,It's so hard to be gentle and warmThe years pass by and now he has granddaughtersYou look at me from across the roomYou're wearing your anguish againBelieve me I know the feelingIt sucks you into the jaws of angerSo breathe a little more deeply my loveAll we have is this very momentAnd I don't want to do what his father,And his father, and his father did,I want to be here nowSo open up your morning light,And say a little prayer for IYou know that if we are to stay alive,Then see the love in every eye...