“I WANT TO LIVE” by John Denver

I HAVE TO share this once in a great while.

Without this song I did not survive my toughest time.

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 John Denver - "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

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 like a way
 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