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 '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 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      I don't want to 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?      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 love in every eye      I don't want to 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?