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I Want to Live
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 a dream
No more hunger no more killing
No more wasting life away
It is simply an idea
And I know it’s 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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Children of The Universe
Deal With The Ladies
Falling Leaves
High, Wide & Handsome
Islands
Never a Doubt
The Marvelous Toy
A Country Girl in Paris
A Little Further North
Alaska & Me
All This Joy
American Child
Annie’s Song
Calypso
Chained to The Wheel
Eagles & Horses
Earth Day Every Day
Eclipse
For You
Grandma’s Feather Bed
Higher Ground
Hold on to Me
Home Grown Tomatoes
I Want to Live
I Watch You Sleeping
Ponies
Potter’s Wheel
Raven’s Child
Rocky Mountain High
Rocky Mountain Suite
Sing Australia
Stonehaven Sunset
Sunshine on My Shoulders
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Tenderly Calling
Thanks to You
The Chosen Ones
The Eagle & The Hawk
The Flower That Shattered The Stone
The Foxfire Suite
The Gift You Are
To The Wild Country
Two Different Directions
Whispering Jesse
Windsong