I_Don't_Want_To_Wait - Paula Cole
from the album "This Fire"
transcribed by Phil Metzler
[Intro/Refrain]
[Gsus2/F] [Gsus2/E]
So open up your morn-ing light and
[Gsus2/D] [Gsus2/C]
say a little prayer for I. You know that
[Gsus2/F] [Gsus2/E]
if we are to stay alive, then
[Gsus2/D] [Gsus2/C]
see the peace in every eye.
[G(add2)]
Du du du, etc.
[C6/9]
Du du du, etc.
Verse
[G(add2)]
She had two babies,
[C6](add2)/[G]
one was six months, one was three
[C6/9]
in the war of forty four.
[G(add2)]
Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging when she
[Em7] [D] [Cmaj9]
thought it was God calling her. Oh, would
[Em] [D6] [C(add9)]
her son grow to know his father?
Chorus
[G(add2)] [D(add4)/F#]
I don't want to wait for our
[Em11] [Dsus]
lives to be over I
[C6] [G(add9)/B]
want to know right now, what will it
[Dsus/A] [Dsus]
be?
(repeat)
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over
Will it be yes, or will it be sorry?
[G(add2)]
Du du du du du
[C6/9]
Du du du du du
Verse 2
(repeat verse one chords)
He showed up all wet on the rainy front step
wearing shrapnel in his skin.
And the war he saw linves inside him still.
It's so hard to be gentle and warm.
The years pass by and now he has granddaughters
Chorus
[G(add2)] [D(add4)/F#]
I don't want to wait for our
[Em11] [Dsus]
lives to be over I
[C6] [G(add9)/B]
want to know right now, what will it
[Dsus/A] [Dsus]
be?
(repeat)
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over
Will it be yes, or will it be sorry?
[G(add2)]
Du du du du du
[C6/9]
Du du du du du
Bridge
[G7(add4)]
Oh, so you look at me from across the room. You're
[Am9]b13
wearing your anguish again. Believe
[Bb(add2)]
me, I know the feeling; it
[Fsus] [C(add9)]
sucks you into the jaws of anger.
[G7(add4)]
Oh, so breath a little more deeply, my love. All we
[Am9]b13
have is this very moment
[Bb(add2)]
and I don't want to do what his father and his father and
[Fsus] [Gsus2]
his fater did. I want to be here now.
[Intro/Refrain]
[Gsus2/F] [Gsus2/E]
So open up your morn-ing light and
[Gsus2/D] [Gsus2/C]
say a little prayer for I. You know that
[Gsus2/F] [Gsus2/E]
if we are to stay alive, then
[Gsus2/D] [Gsus2/C]
see the peace in every eye.
[G(add2)]
Du du du, etc.
[C6/9]
Du du du, etc.
