Songs:After All (103838)

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AFTER ALL (Dar Williams)

Go ahead, push your 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

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
'Til 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
It 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 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

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After All by Chris Pureka SONG
on the album Driving North Buy Chris Pureka at CD-Baby Driving North	Request this song: After All (Only logged in and authenticated users can make requests.) Overall rating: (7 votes) Your rating: You have to login to give your opinion about songs. Length: 4:37 Times played: 11 People hearing: 268 Times requested: 6 First played: May 18th, 2006 Last played: Nov 26th, 2008 Previously played: Aug 6th, 2008 Song ID#: 103838	Listener rankings: 4 stars=sparx ♦ jjascob ♦ Jim ♦ Kazookid ♦ Kelli ♦ Mert ♦ Oldcajun