Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song After All, artist - Dar Williams. Album song The Green World, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 21.08.2000
Record label: Tunecore
Song language: English
After All |
Go ahead, push your luck |
Find out how much love the world can hold |
Once upon a time I had control |
And reined my soul in tight |
Well the whole truth |
Is like the story of a wave unfurled |
But I held the evil of the world |
So I stopped the tide |
Froze it up from inside |
And it felt like a winter machine |
That you go through and then |
You catch your breath and winter starts again |
And everyone else is spring bound |
And when I chose to live |
There was no joy, it’s just a line I crossed |
It wasn’t worth the pain my death would cost |
So I was not lost or found |
And if I was to sleep |
I knew my family had more truth to tell |
And so I traveled down a whispering well |
To know myself through them |
Growing up, my mom had a room full of books |
And hid away in there |
Her father raging down a spiral stair |
Till he found someone |
Most days his son |
And sometimes I think |
My father, too, was a refugee |
I know they tried to keep their pain from me |
They could not see what it was for |
But now I’m sleeping fine |
Sometimes the truth is like a second chance |
I 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 heart |
And worked me over like a work of art |
And I was a part of all that |
So go ahead, push your luck |
Say what it is you’ve got to say to me |
We will push on into that mystery |
And it’ll push right back |
And there are worse things than that |
Cause for every price |
And every penance that I could think of |
It’s better to have fallen in love |
Than never to have fallen at all |
Cause when you live in a world |
Well it gets in to who you thought you’d be |
And now I laugh at how the world changed me |
I think life chose me after all |