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I Want To Live

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: John Denver Canonical path: /john-denver/i-want-to-live Related lyric paths: 6

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I Want To Live

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There are children raised in sorrow

On a scorched and barren plain

There are children raised beneath a golden sun

There are children of the water

Children of the sand

And they cry out through the universe

Their voices raised as one

I want to live I want to grow

I want to see I want to know

I want to share what I can give

I want to be I want to live

Have you gazed out on the ocean

Seen the breaching of a whale?

Have you watched the dolphins frolic in the foam?

Have you heard the song the humpback hears five hundred miles away

Telling tales of ancient history of passages and home?

I want to live I want to grow

I want to see I want to know

I want to share what I can give

I want to be I want to live

For the worker and the warrior the lover and the liar

For the native and the wanderer in kind

For the maker and the user and the mother and her son

I am looking for my family and all of you are mine

We are standing all together

Face to face and arm in arm

We are standing on the threshold of s dream

No mor hunger no more killing

No more wasting life away

It is simply an idea

And I know its time has come

I want to live I want to grow

I want to see I want to know

I want to share what I can give

I want to be I want to live

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