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 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 a granddaughter
Chorus
Oh so you look at me
from across the room
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