Intro: G5      A5  D5 
 
          G5                                 E5 
There are children raised in sorrow    on a scorched  
                              C5                 A5 
and barren plain    there are children raised beneath  
           G5   D5               G5 
the golden sun        there are children of the water   
E5                                 C5   
children of the sand      and they cry throughout  
    A5                   F5                D5 
the universe       their voices raised as one 
 

                  G5                               C5 
CHORUS: I want to live  I want to grow  I want to see  
                          B5                 C5 
I want to know  I want to share   what I can give  
          D5             G5 
I want to be  I want to live 
 

         G5                                E5    
Have you gazed out on the ocean, seen the breaching  
                       C5      
of a whale    have you watched the dolphins  
A5            G5     D5             G5 
frolic in the foam        have you heard the sound  
                        E5 
the humpback hears five hundred miles away    
        C5                A5          F5            D5 
telling tales of ancient history  of passages and home 
 
REPEAT CHORUS 

 
        A5                          E5 
For the worker and the warrior  the lover and the liar 
        F5              A5          G5    D5 
for the native and the wanderer in kind     
        A5                          E5 
for the maker and the user      the mother and her son   
     F5              A5            F5              D5     
I am looking for my family    and all of you are mine 
 

       G5                              E5 
We are standing all together  face to face and arm in arm 
       C5               A5             G5    D5 
We are standing on the threshold of a dream    
        G5                               E5 
no more hunger no more killing  no more wasting life away   
      C5         A5            F5                  D5 
it is simply an idea    and I know it's time has come 
 
 REPEAT CHORUS TWICE 
     

    C5    D5          G5        C5    D5          G5 
END:      I want to live           I want to live