So open up your morning light, 
And say a little prayer for I. 
You know that if we are to stay alive. 
Then see the peace in every eye. 

She had two babies. 
One was six months, one was three 
In the war of fortyfour 
Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging 
When she thought it was God calling her. 
her son grow to know his father ? 

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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 pass by and now he has granddaughters. 

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You look at me from across the room 
You're wearing your anguish again 
Believe me I know the feeling 
It sucks you into the jaws of anger. 
So breathe a little more deeply my love 
All we have is this 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, 
Then see the peace in every eye 

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