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Album: This Fire
Genre: Pop
Writer: Paula Cole
Released: 1997
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After song Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?, this single was the most popular into her debut album titled This Fire. The song reached the peak position at number 11 on U.S. Billboard Hot 100. I Don’t Want to Wait also made so popular because on the lyrics had a big grammatical mistake when Cole used the subject “I” after a preposition on the line: “And say a little prayer for I”. For this debut material, Cole won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Her last project, Courage, was released in 2007.

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 eye

She had two babies
One was six months one was three
In the war of ‘44
Every telephone ring
Every heartbeat stinging
When she thought it was God calling her
Oh would her son grow to know his father

I don’t want to wait
For our lives to be over
I want to know right now
What will it be
I don’t 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
It’s so hard to be gentle and warm
The years passed by and now
He has granddaughters

I don’t want to wait
For our lives to be over
I want to know right now
What will it be
I don’t want to wait
For our lives to be over
Will it be yes or will it be sorry?

Oh, so dig a little more deeply into my life
All we have is the very moment
And I don’t want to do what
His father and his father and his father did
I want to be here now

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 eye

I don’t want to wait
For our lives to be over
I want to know right now
What will it be
I don’t want to wait
For our lives to be over
Will it be yes or will it be sorry?

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 eye.