Interpret:

John Denver

Album:

I Want To Live

There are children raised in sorrow 
 On a scorched and barren plain 
 There are children raised beneath the 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 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 treshold of a dream 
 No more 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, 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 
 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 
 I want to live, I want to live