Dar Williams - After All lyrics

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Go aheadpush you luckfind out how much love the world can holdonce upon a

Time I had controland reigned my soul in tight. well the whole truthit's

Like the story of a wave unfurledbut I held the evil of the worldso i

Stopped the tidefroze it up from insideand it felt like a winter machine

That you go through and thenyou catch your breath and winter starts again

And everyone else is spring bound. and when I chose to livethere was no joy

It's just a line I crossedit wasn't worth the pain my death would costso i

Was not lost or found. and if I was to sleepI knew my family had more truth

To tell. and so I traveled down a whispering wellto know myself through

Them. growing upmy mom had a room full of booksand hid away in thereher

Father raging down a spiral stairtill he found someonemost days his son

And sometimes I think my fathertoowas a refugeeI know they tried to keep

Their pain form methey could not see what it waas for. but now I'm sleeping

Finesomet

Imes the truth is like a second chanceI am the daughter of a great romance

And they are the children of the war. well the sun rose with so many colors

It nearly broke my heartit worked me over like a work of artand I was a

Part off all that. so go aheadpush your lucksay what it is you gotta say

To mewe will push on into that mysteryand it'll push right backand there

Are worse things than thatcause for every priceand every penance that i

Could think ofit's better to have fallen in lovethan never to have fallen

At allcause when you live in a worldwell it gets into who you thought you'd

Beand now I laugh at how the world changed meI think life chose me after

All.