After All Williams Lyrics - Many Great Companions - Dar Williams

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