I Don't Want To Wait chords by Paula Cole, Paula Cole

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Verse 1

So open up your morning light

Asus4

And say a little prayer for I

You know that if we are to stay alive

Asus4

And see the peace in every eye

Interlude 1

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Verse 2

She had two babies

One was six months 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

Verse 3
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I  don't want to wait
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For our lives to be over
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I want to know right now
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What will it be
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I  don't want to wait
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For our lives to be over
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D 
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Will it be yes or will it be sorry
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?
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Verse 4
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He showed up all wet
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On the rainy front step
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Wearing shrapnel in his skin
And the war he saw
Lives inside him still
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It's so hard to be gentle and warm
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The years passed by and now
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He has a granddaughter

Verse 5
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I don't want to wait
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For our lives to be over
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I want to know right now
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Esus4 
Asus4 
What will it be
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A 
I  don't want to wait
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For our lives to       be over
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D 
Esus4 
Will it be yes or will it be

Verse 6
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Oh, so you look at me
From across the room
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You're wearing your anguish again
Believe me I know the feeling
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It sucks        you into the jaws
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Gsus4 
of anger
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Oh, so breathe a little
more deeply my love
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All we have is this very moment
And I don't want to do what
His father and his father
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and his      father did
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I want to be here now
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Verse 7

So open up your morning light

Asus4

And say a little prayer for I

You know that if we are to stay alive

Asus4

And see the peace in every eye

Verse 8
D 
A 
I don't want to wait
Bm 
Asus4 
For our lives to be over
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D 
I want to know right now
Esus4 
Asus4 
What will it be
D 
A 
I  don't want to wait
Bm 
Asus4 
For our lives to be over
A 
G 
D 
Will it be yes or will it be
Esus4 
Asus4 
A 

Verse 9
D 
A 
I  don't want to wait
Bm 
Asus4 
A 
For our lives to be over
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D 
I want to know right now
Esus4 
Asus4 
What will it be
D 
A 
I  don't want to wait
Bm 
Asus4 
For our lives to be over
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D 
Esus4 
Will it be yes or will it be
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sorry?

Interlude 2

Verse 10
C 
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So open up your morning light
Asus4 
A 
And say      a little pray
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er for I
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Bm 
You know that if we are to stay alive
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G 
And see      the love in every eye