Chords for Nite Show Web Exclusive - Paula Cole Performs "I Don't Want to Wait"

by saying Paula Cole everybody. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [C#m] So open up [D#] your morning light
[C#] and say a little prayer [C#m] for a while.
You know that if we are to [D#] stay alive
then see the peace [F#] in every eye.
Do do do do [C#] do do _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ do do do _
_ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ do
She had two babies
one was six months one was three
in the war of 44.
_ _ _ _ Every telephone ring
every heartbeat [D#m] stinging
when she thought it was God [B] calling her
_ [D#m] Oh would her [C#] son grow to [B] know his father
I _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [C#] _ _ [D#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ [G#]
long to know right now
[C#] but will it be
will _
_ _ _ [D#m] _ _ _ [F#] _
[G#] it be
yes so will it be
_ [F#] Son
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_ _ He _ _ _ _ showed up all [C#] wet
on the rainy [F#] front step
with red dreadlocked in his [B] skin
_ _ [F#]
and the [C#] war he saw
lives inside him [D#m] still
it's so hard [C#] to be gentle [B] and warm
[D#m] the years pass [C#] by and now he [B] has granddaughters _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [D#m] _
_ [C#] _ _ [B] I long to [A#m] know right now
but [C#] will it be
will _ _ _ _ [D#m] _
_ [C#] _ [G#] it be
[F#] yes so will it [G#] be
_ _ [F#] Oh so you look at me from across the room
and [G#] wearing your [D#] vanquish [G#] again
_ _ [A] believe me I know the feeling
that [E] sucks you into the jaws of [B] anger _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ [F#] Oh so breathe a little more deeply my love
_ all we [G#] have is this [G#m] very moment
[G#] _ and [A] I don't want to do what his father
and [E] his father and his father did
I want to be here [F#] now _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#m] so open up your [D#] morning light
and say a little [B] prayer for bright
you [C#m] know that if we are to [D#] stay alive
[C#] and see the peace [G#] in every [F#] eye
I don't want _ [D#] for our lives [C#] to be over
[G#] I long to know right now
but will it be
will [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [D#m] _
_ [C#] _ _ [G#] it be
yes so will it be
I long _ _ _ _ _ [D#m] _
_ [C#] _ _ [G#] to [F#] know right now
but [C#] will it be
will _ _ _ _ [D#m] _
_ [C#] _ [G#] it be
[A#m] yes so will it [C#]
be
Son
[F#] _ So _ _
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[B] _ _ _ [C#m] open up [D#] your morning [C#] light
and say a [B] little prayer for [C#m] bright
you know that if we [D#] are to stay alive
then [C#m] see the [G#] love in our _ _ _
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Ross Gallagher on the bass
Thank you everybody _ _ _
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