It's Alright Lyrics - Promised Land - Dar Williams

I know change is a bad thing 

Breaks me down into a sorry sad thing 

Not some iridescent grateful butterfly 

I'll resist with defiance 

Not the valor of a mystic silence 

I will fight the dizzy spiral of goodbye 

And it's alright, it's alright, it's alright 

It's alright, it's alright, it's alright 

Please don't say you don't love me 

Never dangle any sword above me 

With the kind of change that severs me in two 

Give me amberizing glasses 

Could you slow it down like molasses 

As I salvage my old self away from you? 

Oh, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright 

It's alright, it's alright, it's alright 

It's alright, it's alright, it's alright 

Because I have seen insane things 

All those grand, historic paintings 

Morning light on polished swords and burnished pride 

Anxious smiles encased in whalebone 

Spines of steel from head to tail bone 

Cannons poised to blast the turning of the tide 

It's a sad and a strange thing 

But it's time and I am changing 

Into something good or bad, well, that's your guess 

I'm my own sovereign nation 

Dedicated to a transformation 

Marching on with this target on my chest 

Oh yes, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright 

Oh, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright 

It's alright, it's alright, it's alright 

Oh, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright 

It's alright, it's alright, it's alright 

It's alright, it's alright, it's alright