After All — Dar Williams
Chords and lyrics for After All by Dar Williams (key of C).
Verse 1
[C]go [G)]ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the [Fmaj7]world can hold,
once upon a time i [Dm7]had control, and [F]reigned my [G]soul in [C][G]tight.
well the [C]whole [G)]truth, it's like the story of a [Fmaj7]wave unfurled,
but i held the evil [Dm7]of the world,
so [F]i stopped the tide, froze it [G]up from inside,
and it [C]felt [G)]like a winter machine that you go [Fmaj7]through and then,
you catch your breath and winter [Dm7]starts again,
and [F]everyone [G]else is spring [C][G]bound.
and when [C]i chose[G)] to live, there was no joy, it's just a [Fmaj7]line i crossed
it wasn't worth the pain my [Dm7]death would have cost
so [F]i was not [G]lost or [C]found.[G]
and if [C]i was [G)]to sleep, i knew my family had more [Fmaj7]truth to tell.
and so i traveled down a [Dm7]whispering well,
to [F]know [G]myself through [C][G]them.
C (addG) Fmaj7
growing up, my mom had a room full of books, and hid away in there,
her father raging down a [Dm7]spiral stair,
till [F]he found someone, most [G]days his son,
and [C][G)]sometimes i think my father, too, was a [Fmaj7]refugee,
i know they tried to keep their [Dm7]pain from me,
they [F]could not [G]see what it was [C]for.[G]
C (add G)
but now i'm sleeping fine,
sometimes the truth is like a [Fmaj7]second chance,
i am the daughter of a [Dm7]great romance,
and [F]they are the [G]children of the [C]war.[G]
[C] [Fmaj7] [Dm7] [F] [G] [C] [G]
well the [C]sun [G)]rose with so many colors, it nearly [Fmaj7]broke my heart,
it worked me over like a [Dm7]work of art,
and [F]i was a [G]part of all [C]that.[G]
so go [C]ahead [G)]push your luck, say what it is you gotta [Fmaj7]say to me,
we will push on into that [Dm7]mystery,
and it'll [F]push right back, and there are [G]worse things than [C][G]that,
cause for [C]every [G)]price, and every penance that i [Fmaj7]could think of,
it's better to have [Dm7]fallen in love,
than [F]never to have [G]fallen at [C]all,[G]
cause when you [C]live in[G)] a world, well it gets into who you [Fmaj7]thought you'd be,
and now i laugh at how the [Dm7]world changed me,
[F]i think life [G]chose me after [C][G)][Em]all.[C][G][G)][C(][G][Am]
(add G)
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