I Don't Want to Wait

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I Don't Want to Wait by Paula Cole

About I Don't Want to Wait

"I Don't Want to Wait" is a song by singer Paula Cole released as the second single from her second album This Fire on October 14, 1997. Written & produced by her, the song was written about her grandfather she never knew who had passed when her mother was 13. Paula Cole wrote I Don't Want To Wait at her spinet piano in her apartment in New York City. Described by Paula as "a very personal song", she wrote the song when she realized that her grandfather was near the end of his life. .

I Don't Want to Wait Lyrics

[00:01.04] So open up your morning light
[00:04.00] And say a little prayer for I
[00:06.48] You know that if we are to stay alive
[00:09.37] Then see the peace in every eye
[00:12.99]
[00:33.63] She had two babies, one was six months, one was three
[00:38.94] In the war of '44
[00:44.23] Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging
[00:48.81] When she thought it was God calling her
[00:54.20] Oh, would her son grow to know his father?
[01:00.38]
[01:02.61] I don't want to to wait for our lives to be over
[01:08.23] I want to know right now what will it be
[01:13.67] I don't want to wait for our lives to be over
[01:18.66] Will it be yes or will it be sorry?
[01:22.86]
[01:36.03] He showed up all wet on the rainy front step
[01:41.32] Wearing shrapnel in his skin
[01:46.98] And the war he saw lives inside him still
[01:51.50] It's so hard to be gentle and warm
[01:56.50] The years pass by and now he has granddaughters
[02:02.19]
[02:05.33] I don't want to wait for our lives to be over
[02:10.37] I want to know right now what will it be
[02:15.77] I don't want to wait for our lives to be over
[02:21.09] Will it be yes or will it be?
[02:26.63] So you look at me from across the room
[02:32.08] You're wearing your anguish again
[02:37.69] Believe me I know the feeling
[02:40.57] It sucks you into the jaws of anger
[02:46.08]
[02:49.14] So breathe a little more deeply my love
[02:53.34] All we have is this very moment
[02:59.24] And I don't want to do what his father
[03:01.47] And his father, and his father did
[03:03.55] I want to be here now
[03:07.93]
[03:10.19] So open up your morning light
[03:12.88] And say a little prayer for I
[03:15.24] You know that if we are to stay alive
[03:18.17] Then see the love in every eye
[03:21.10] I don't want to wait for our lives to be over
[03:26.47] I want to know right now what will it be
[03:32.08] I don't want to wait for our lives to be over
[03:37.12] Will it be yes or will it be?
[03:43.07] I don't want to wait for our lives to be over
[03:48.30] I want to know right now what will it be
[03:53.96] I don't want to wait for our lives to be over
[03:59.24] Will it be yes or will it be sorry?
[04:05.09]
[04:26.46] So open up your morning light
[04:29.17] And say a little prayer for I
[04:31.58] You know that if we are to stay alive
[04:35.04] Then see the love in every eye
[04:37.51]

From the album: Iconic 90s