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

And children of the sand

And they cry out through the universe

Their voices raised as one

I wanna live, I wanna grow

I wanna see, and I wanna know

I wanna share what I can give

I wanna be, I wanna 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 wanna live, I wanna grow

I wanna see, and I wanna know

I wanna share what I can give

I wanna be, I wanna 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, 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, arm in arm

We are standing on the threshold 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 wanna live, I wanna grow

I wanna see, and I wanna know

I wanna share what I can give

I wanna be

I wanna live, and I wanna grow

I wanna see, and I wanna know

I wanna share what I can give

I wanna be

I wanna live, and I wanna grow

I wanna see, I wanna know

I wanna share what I can give

I wanna be

I wanna live

I wanna live

I want to live