I Want To Live Lyrics

The song I Want To Live is performed by John Denver in the album named Country Roads Collection in the year 1997 .



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 pa*sages 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 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



John Denver - Country Roads Collection

Aug 1997

  1. Circus
  2. Catch Another Butterfly
  3. Daydream
  4. Molly
  5. Sticky Summer Weather
  6. Isabel
  7. City Of New Orleans
  8. All Of My Memories
  9. Casey's Last Ride
  10. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
  11. In The Grand Way
  12. Dearest Esmerelda
  13. Southwind
  14. Garden Song
  15. What's On Your Mind
  16. You're So Beautiful
  17. In My Heart
  18. The Mountain Song
  19. Song For The Life
  20. If Ever
  21. I'm In The Mood To Be Desired Tonight
  22. Don't Close Your Eyes, Tonight
  23. Love Is The Master
  24. I Can't Escape
  25. Leaving On A Jet Plane
  26. Rhymes And Reasons
  27. Follow Me
  28. Aspenglow
  29. Sunshine On My Shoulders
  30. My Sweet Lady
  31. Take Me Home, Country Roads
  32. I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado
  33. Poems, Prayers And Promises
  34. Starwood In Aspen
  35. The Eagle And The Hawk
  36. Friends With You
  37. Rocky Mountain High
  38. For Baby (For Bobbie)
  39. Goodbye Again
  40. We Don't Live Here No More
  41. I'd Rather Be A Cowboy (Lady's Chains)
  42. Farewell Andromeda (Welcome To My Morning)
  43. Rocky Mountain Suite (Cold Nights In Canada)
  44. Annie's Song
  45. Back Home Again
  46. Grandma's Feather Bed
  47. Sweet Surrender
  48. Eclipse
  49. Thank God I'm A Country Boy
  50. This Old Guitar
  51. Spirit
  52. Song Of Wyoming
  53. I'm Sorry
  54. Windsong
  55. Looking For Space
  56. Fly Away
  57. Calypso
  58. Come And Let Me Look In Your Eyes
  59. Like A Sad Song
  60. How Can I Leave You Again
  61. Ripplin' Waters
  62. It Amazes Me
  63. Singing Skies And Dancing Waters
  64. Thirsty Boots
  65. I Want To Live
  66. Autograph
  67. Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)
  68. Country Love
  69. Dreams
  70. Heart To Heart
  71. Shanghai Breezes
  72. Seasons Of The Heart
  73. Perhaps Love
  74. Falling Out Of Love
  75. It's About Time
  76. Wild Montana Skies
  77. Dreamland Express
  78. Don't Close Your Eyes, Tonight
  79. I Can't Escape
  80. Love Again
  81. Flying For Me

I Want To Live