So open up your morning light, and say a little prayer for I You know that if we are to stay alive, then see the peace in every eye She had two babies, one was six months, one was three, in the warm of forty-four Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging, when she thought that it was God calling her Oh, 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 be? I don't want to wait for our lives to be over, will it be? Yes, so will it be Sorry 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 had granddaughters I don't want to wait for our lives to be over, I want to know right now, what will it be? I don't want to wait for our lives to be over, will it be? Yes, so will it be Oh, so you look at me from across the room, you're wearing your anguish again Believe me, I know the feeling, it sucks you into the jaws of anger Oh, so breathe a little more deeply, all we have is this very moment And I don't want to do what his father and his father and his father did, I want to be here now So open up your morning light, and say a little prayer for us You know that if we are to stay alive, and see the peace in every eye I don't want to wait for our lives to be over, I want to know right now, what will it be? I don't want to wait for our lives to be over, will it be? Yes, so will it be I don't want to wait for our lives to be over, I want to know right now, what will it be? I don't want to wait for our lives to be over, will it be? Yes, so will it be Sorry So open up your morning light, and say a little prayer for us You know that if we are to stay alive, and see the love in every eye I don't want to wait for our lives to be over, I want to know right now, what will it be?