JOHN DENVER - I Want To Live lyrics

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There are children raised in sorrow<br>On a scorched and barren plain<br>There are children raised beneath a golden sun<br>There are children of the water<br>Children of the sand<br>And they cry out through the universe<br>Their voices raised as one<br><br>I want to live I want to grow<br>I want to see I want to know<br>I want to share what I can give<br>I want to be I want to live<br><br>Have you gazed out on the ocean<br>Seen the breaching of a whale? <br>Have you watched the dolphins frolic in the foam? <br>Have you heard the song the humpback hears five hundred miles away<br>Telling tales of ancient history of passages and home? <br><br>I want to live I want to grow<br>I want to see I want to know<br>I want to share what I can give<br>I want to be I want to live<br><br>For the worker and the warrior the lover and the liar<br>For the native and the wanderer in kind<br>For the maker and the user and the mother and her son<br>I am looking for my family and all of you are mine<br><br>We are standing all together<br>Face to face and arm in arm<br>We are standing on the threshold of a dream<br>No more hunger no more killing<br>No more wasting life away<br>It is simply an idea<br>And I know it's time has come<br><br>I want to live I want to grow<br>I want to see I want to know<br>I want to share what I can give<br>I want to be I want to live