Dawson’s Creek

I Don’t Want To Wait (theme) by Paula Cole

Elsewhere - Run Like Mad (The theme song for season one for the international market)

On My Own

Original Air Dates: 1998 - present (WB)

I Don’t Want To Wait 

So open up your morning light, 
And say a little prayer for I. 
You know that if we are to stay alive.
Then see the peace in every eye.

She had two babies. One was six months, one was three
In the war of ’44. 
Every telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging 
When she thought it was God calling her. 
Oh would her son grow to know his father? 

(chorus)
I don’t want to wait for our lives to be over, 
I want to know right now what will it be. 
I don’t want to wait for our lives to be over, 
Will it be yes or will it be sorry? 

He showed up all wet on the rainy front step. 
Wearing shrapnel in his skin.
And the war he saw lives inside him still,
It’s so hard to be gentle and warm.
The years pass by and now he has granddaughters

(chorus)

You look at me from across the room 
You’re wearing your anguish again 
Believe me I know the feeling 
It sucks you into the jaws of anger. 
So breathe a little more deeply my love 
All we have is this very moment
And I don’t want to do what his father,
And his father, and his father did,
I want to be here now.

So open up your morning light,
And say a little prayer for I
You know that if we are to stay alive,
Then see the love in every eye.

ELSEWHERE - Run Like Mad

My heart is in my hands 
My head is in the clouds 
My feet have left the ground 
My life is turning around and round
And every voice inside my head is
Telling me to run like mad 
Oh bows and arrows
Stars and sunsets 
hey hey hey yeah 
hey hey hey yeah 
Every heartbeat, every kiss just
Makes me wonder what all this is 
Suits of armor
Hearts and arrows 
Hey hey hey yeah hey hey hey yeah
Hey hey hey ye-eah!

   

 

 

ON MY OWN

Sung by Joey (Katie Holmes) in the first season of the show - episode 12 "Beauty Contest."

On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone, I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me

In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me for ever and forever

And I know it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say, there's a way for us

I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone, the river's just a river
Without him the world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers

I love him  
But every day I'm learning
All my life I've only been pretending
Without me his world will go on turning
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known!

I love him, I love him, I love him.
But only on my own.

Michelle Williams

Katie Holmes

Merideth Monroe