| E | B5 | |
| So open up your | morning light and |
| C#m | Asus2 | |
| say a little | prayer for I. You know that |
| E | B5 | |
| if we are to st | ay alive, then |
| C#m | Asus2 | |
| see the peace in | every eye. |
| E-B5-C#m-Asus2 | |
| Du du du, etc. |
| E-B5-C#m-Asus2 | |
| Du du du, etc. |
| verse: |
| E | B5 | Asus2 | |
| She had | two babies | , |
| C#m | Asus2 | |
| one was | six months, one was | three |
| C#m | B5-Asus2 | |
| in the | war of forty | four. |
| E | B5 | C#m | Asus2 | |
| Every te | lephone ring | , every he | artbeat stinging when she |
| C#m | B5 | Asus2 | C#m | |
| thought it was | God calling | her. Oh, | would |
| B5 | Asus2 | |
| her son | grow to know his | father? |
| chorus: |
| E | B5 | |
| I don't want to | wait for our |
| C#m | Asus2 | |
| lives to be o | ver I |
| C#m | B5 | |
| wa | nt to know right n | ow, what will it |
| Asus2 | |
| be? |
| (repeat) |
| I don't want to wait for our lives to be over |
| Will it be yes, or will it be sorry? |
| Du | du | du | du | du |
| verse two: |
| (repeat verse one chords) |
| He showed up all wet on the rainy front step |
| wearing shrapnel in his skin. |
| And the war he saw lives inside him still. |
| It's so hard to be gentle and warm. |
| The years pass by and now he has granddaughters |
| chorus |
| bridge: |
| C | G | |
| Oh, so you look at me from acr | oss the room. You're |
| C | G | C | |
| wearing your anguish | again. Beli | eve |
| me, I know the feeling; it |
| Em | Asus2 | B5 | |
| s | ucks you in | to the jaws of | anger. |
| C | G | |
| Oh, so breathe a little more deep | ly, my love. All we |
| D | C | C | |
| have is this very mom | ent |
| C | G | C | |
| and I don't want to do what | his father and h | is father and |
| G | Asus2 | |
| his father did. I want to be here no | w. |
| intro |
| chorus |
| Du du du's |
| intro |
| end on Asus2 |