Tom: G5
intro/refrain:
G5            G5 
So open up your morn-ing light and 
G5         G5       
say a little prayer for I.  You know that
G5         G5
if we are to stay alive, then
G5          G5 
see the peace in every eye.
G5   
Du du du, etc.
C5
Du du du, etc.

verse:
G5
She had two babies,
C5
one was six months, one was three
C5
in the war of forty four.
G5
Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging when she
E5               D5         C5
thought it was God calling her.  Oh, would
E5      D5                 C5 
her son grow to know his father?

chorus:
G5               D5
I don't want to wait for our 
E5            D5        
lives to be over I 
C5                    G5
want to know right now, what will it 
D5   D5
be?

(repeat)

I don't want to wait for our lives to be over

Will it be yes, or will it be sorry?
G5
Du du du du du 
C5
Du du du du du 

verse two:
G5                   C5
He showed up all wet on the rainy front step
C5
wearing shrapnel in his skin.
G5
And the war he saw linves inside him still. 
 E5               D5         C5
It's so hard to be gentle and warm.
E5      D5                 C5 
The years pass by and now he has granddaughters

chorus

bridge:
G5
Oh, so you look at me from across the room.  You're
A5
wearing your anguish again. Believe
Bb5
me, I know the feeling; it 
F5                     C5   
sucks you into the jaws of anger.
G5
Oh, so breath a little more deeply, my love.  All we
A5
have is this very moment
Bb5
and I don't want to do what his father and his father and 
F5                          G5
his fater did.  I want to be here now.

intro 

chorus

Du du du's

intro
end on F5 improv/