Dar Williams - After All

After All Lyrics
You go ahead, push you luck
Find out how much love the world can hold
Once upon a time I had control
And reigned my soul in tight
Well the whole truth, it's 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
Then when I chose to live, there was no joy it's just a line I crossed
I 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
I'm 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 form 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
It worked me over like a work of art and I was a part off all that
So go ahead, push your luck, say what it is you gotta 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 into who you thought you'd be
And now I laugh at how the world changed me, I think life chose me after all

[@jessicawilliams2362]

I listen to this song all the time. It encompasses my feelings and is how I felt when I first got clean. There was no joy, it's just a line I crossed...

[@Pernoctate]

Love this song and Dar's music.

[@tonydalessio954]

@ tonydalessio
Wrenches my heart every time I listen, and when that dobro kicks in on the break, each note stabs like a flaming sword. This song is a classic that will survive the centuries and melt the hearts and minds of many many more.

[@glenpeters9097]

Such a fantastic song, fantastic sentiment, fantastic voice...I musta played it 200 times the week I discovered it, I downloaded the lyrics, sang along, it became the most pleasant obsession.

[@philhatch483]

Always loved this song. Just shared it with my sister.

[@AR-mu4zq]

About to share it with mine, when I saw your comment

[@JennySieck]

I think this has always been one of my favorites by her....love your pics and interpretations though...As if being surrounded by nature helps ..and it truly does. Lovely...

[@genghiskuhn]

go ahead, push your luck. find out how much love the world can hold......

[@gabriellesummers1426]

Dar is awesome love her music. Especially when i can not express my own thoughts

[@terigower]

love the words

[@terigower]

just fell in love with the words....Krys and her voice is so gentle...

[@terigower]

*****
''Well the sun rose, with so many colors it nearly broke my heart
It worked me over like a work of art and I was a part off all that''

[@philhatch483]

She is a master songwriter.

[@Biancavitta]

love the words also
touched my heart and soul...
and i´m feeling floating high,
above the clouds...

[@terigower]

love this line
'';Well the sun rose, with so many colors it nearly broke my heart''

[@Dag55Mar]

BEAUTIFULLY made!!!

[@RobertEickJr]

I put you on to listen to your Phil Ochs cover and you gained a fan! Beautiful voice and music.And as terigower says;"THE WORDS"

[@doda26]

A great video with beautiful photos and great music!

[@dnadsy52]

..... dopo le solite ricerche.... cofermo sempre il mio pensiero mary..... Brava nelle tue ottime scelte ...... Merci so much..... sempre in ascolto, anche se la presenza sembra che non ci sia..... saluti .... d.

[@terigower]

siete sempre vicini e ur commenti amato vi ringrazio per essere qui

[@haroldkrishna4116]

Hey Joe, thanks for introducing me to "Dah's" music!

[@CliveBarnesMusic]

Jamie Raskin, lead impeachment manager in the 2nd Trump impeachment trail just name checked Dar and quoted this song in the closing argument for the prosecution..

[@elizabethtobey178]

I just heard this too.

[@glenpeters9097]

Another pleasant obsession: Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters Eden or Birthday Song. Slightly different genre... see if it stirs similar emotion?

[@jimmorgan8722]

lovely

[@cindyhickman2153]

Nice movie

[@parachriss]

..gefällt mir,lg Christa

[@terigower]

so schöne Worte

[@dannybowden8909]

Heard this on Mysterious Ways (tv show)

[@kolosnikov]

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