Paula Cole (born April 5, 1968 in Rockport, Massachusetts, USA) is an American singer and songwriter. Among her hits include "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone," "Me," "I Am So Ordinary," "I Believe In Love," and the theme to the WB's hit series "Dawson's Creek," "I Don't Want to Wait." Cole released her debut album, Harbinger, in 1994 with Imago Records. She so entranced the industry with her vocals that she was asked to tour as an opening act for Peter Gabriel; she also appeared with Melissa Etheridge to sing a duet on VH1 though she was not well-known at the time. Harbinger featured songs dwelling on Cole's personal experience with discrimination and unhappiness. The songs were musically lush but driven and bleak.
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I Don’t Want To Wait Lyrics

Paula Cole

So open up your morning light
And say a little prayer for i
You know that if we are to stay alive
And see the peace in every i
She had two babies
One was six months one was three
In the war of 44
Every telephone ring
Every heartbeat stinging
When thought it was God calling her
Oh would her son grow to know his father
Chorus:
I dont want to wait
For our lives to be over
I want to know right know
What will it be
I dont want to wait
For our lives to be over
Will it be yes or will it be
Sorry
He showed up all wet
On the rainy front step
Wearing shrapnel in his skin
And the war he saw
Lives inside him still
Its so hard to be gentle and warm
The years passed by and now
He has a granddaughter
Chorus
Oh so you look at me
From across the room
Youre wearing your anguish again
Believe I know the feeling
It sucks you into the jaws of anger
Oh, so dig a little more deeply into my life
All we have is the very moment
And I dont want to do what
His father and his father and his father did
I want to be here know
So open up your morning light
And say a little prayer for i
You know that if we are to stay alive
And see the peace in every i
Chorus (2 times)
So open up your morning light
And say a little prayer for i
You know that if we are to stay alive
And see the love in every i