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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)G(add2) Piano Chord 

Du du du, etc.
C6/9C6/9 Piano Chord 

Du du du, etc.

verse:
G(add2)G(add2) Piano Chord 

She had two babies,
C6(add2)/G
one was six months, one was three
C6/9C6/9 Piano Chord 

in the war of forty four.
G(add2)G(add2) Piano Chord 

Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging when she
Em7Em7 Piano Chord 
  	       DD Piano Chord 
	   Cmaj9Cmaj9 Piano Chord 

thought it was God calling her.  Oh, would
EmEm Piano Chord 
	D6D6 Piano Chord 
                 C(add9)C(add9) Piano Chord 

her son grow to know his father?

chorus:
G(add2)G(add2) Piano Chord 
		   D(add4)/F#D(add4)/F# Piano Chord 

I don't want to wait for our
Em11Em11 Piano Chord 
	      DsusDsus Piano Chord 

lives to be over I
C6C6 Piano Chord 
                    G(add9)/BG(add9)/B Piano Chord 

want to know right now, what will it
Dsus/ADsus/A Piano Chord 
   DsusDsus Piano Chord 

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)G(add2) Piano Chord 

Du du du du du
C6/9C6/9 Piano Chord 

Du du du du du

verse two:
(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

bridge:
G7(add4)G7(add4) Piano Chord 

Oh, so you look at me from across the room.  You're
Am9b13
wearing your anguish again. Believe
Bb(add2)Bb(add2) Piano Chord 

me, I know the feeling; it
FsusFsus Piano Chord 
			   C(add9)C(add9) Piano Chord 

sucks you into the jaws of anger.
G7(add4)G7(add4) Piano Chord 

Oh, so breath a little more deeply, my love.  All we
Am9b13
have is this very moment
Bb(add2)Bb(add2) Piano Chord 

and I don't want to do what his father and his father and
FsusFsus Piano Chord 
				  Gsus2Gsus2 Piano Chord 

his fater did.  I want to be here now.

intro

chorus

Du du du's

intro

end on Fsus2 improv.