Chord/Tab song: I Don't Want to Wait

Date: Wed, 3 August 2005
From: "Charles F. Cardenas"
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: CRD "I Don't Want To Wait" by Paula Cole

I_Don't_Want_To_Wait - Paula Cole
from the album "This Fire"
transcribed by Charles F. Cardenas
Capo on 2nd Fret
intro/refrain:

[E]So open up your [B5]morning light and
[C#m]say a little[Asus2] prayer for I. You know that
[E]if we are to st[B5]ay alive, then
[C#m]see the peace in [Asus2]every eye.

[E-B5-C#m-Asus2]Du du du, etc.
[E-B5-C#m-Asus2]Du du du, etc.

verse:
[E]She had [B5]two babies[Asus2],
one was [C#m]six months, one was [Asus2]three
in the [C#m]war of forty [B5-Asus2]four.
[E]Every te[B5]lephone ring[C#m], every he[Asus2]artbeat stinging when she
[C#m]thought it was [B5]God calling[Asus2] her. Oh, [C#m]would
her son [B5]grow to know his [Asus2]father?

chorus:
[E]I don't want to [B5]wait for our
[C#m]lives to be o[Asus2]ver I
wa[C#m]nt to know right n[B5]ow, what will it
[Asus2]be?
(repeat)
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over
Will it be yes, or will it be sorry?
[E-B5-C#m-Asus2]
[Du] [du] [du] [du] [du]
[E-B5-C#m-Asus2]
[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 lives inside him still.
It's so hard to be gentle and warm.
The years pass by and now he has granddaughters

chorus

bridge:
[C]Oh, so you look at me from acr[G]oss the room. You're
[C]wearing your anguish [G]again. Beli[C]eve

me, I know the feeling; it
s[Em]ucks you in[Asus2]to the jaws of [B5]anger.
[C]Oh, so breathe a little more deep[G]ly, my love. All we
[D]have is this very mom[C]ent[C]
[C]and I don't want to do what [G]his father and h[C]is father and
[G]his father did. I want to be here no[Asus2]w.

intro

chorus

Du du du's

intro

end on Asus2