Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song You're Aging Well, artist - Dar Williams. Album song The Honesty Room, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 31.12.2005
Record label: Tunecore
Song language: English
You're Aging Well |
Why is it that as we grow older and stronger |
The road signs point us adrift and make us afraid |
Saying, 'You never can win' |
'Watch your back', 'Where's your husband?' |
I don’t like the signs that the signmakers made |
So I’m going to steal out with my paint and brushes |
I’ll change the directions, I’ll hit every street |
It’s the Tinseltown scandal, the robin hood vandal |
She goes out and steals the king’s English |
And in the morning you wake up and the signs point to you |
They say, «I'm so glad that you finally made it here |
You thought nobody cared but I did, I could tell |
And this is your year and it always starts here |
And oh, you’re aging well» |
Well I know a woman with a collection of sticks |
She could fight back the hundreds of voices she heard |
She could poke at the greed, she could fend off her need |
And with anger she found she could pound every word |
But one voice got through, caught her up by surprise |
It said, «Don't hold us back we’re the story you tell» |
And no sooner than spoken, a spell had been broken |
And the voices before her were trumpets and tympani |
Violins, basses and woodwinds and cellos, singing |
«We're so glad that you finally made it here |
You thought nobody cared, but we did, we could tell |
And now you’ll dance through the days while the orchestra plays |
And oh, you’re aging well» |
Now when I was fifteen, oh I knew it was over |
The road to enchantment was not mine to take |
'Cause lower calf, upper arm should be half what they are |
I was breaking the laws that the signmakers made |
And all I could eat was the poisonous apple |
And that’s not a story I was meant to survive |
I was all out of choices but the woman of voices |
She turned round the corner with music around her |
She gave me the language that keeps me alive, she said |
«I'm so glad that you finally made it here |
With the things you know now, that only time could tell |
Looking back, seeing far, landing right where we are |
And oh, you’re aging, oh and I am aging oh, aren’t we aging well?» |