Dar Williams – After All chords

After All
       


C (add G)                                             Fmaj7go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold,
                   Dm7               F          G       C   Gonce upon a time i had control, and reigned my soul in tight.

         C (add G)                             Fmaj7well the whole truth, it's like the story of a wave unfurled,
                    Dm7but i held the evil of the world,
   F                            Gso i stopped the tide, froze it up from inside,

          C (add G)                               Fmaj7   and it felt like a winter machine that you go through and then,
                                     Dm7   you catch your breath and winter starts again, 
        F        G              C   G   and everyone else is spring bound.

         C (add G)                                       Fmaj7and when i chose to live, there was no joy, it's just a line i crossed
                            Dm7it wasn't worth the pain my death would have cost
   F          G        C   Gso i was not lost or found. 

       C (add G)                                 Fmaj7and if i was to sleep, i knew my family had more truth to tell.
                         Dm7and so i traveled down a whispering well, 
   F        G          C  G     to know myself through them.

        C (addG)                                     Fmaj7growing up, my mom had a room full of books, and hid away in there,
                          Dm7her father raging down a spiral stair, 
     F                       Gtill he found someone, most days his son,
 
        C (add G)                              Fmaj7   and sometimes i think my father, too, was a refugee, 
                                   Dm7   i know they tried to keep their pain from me, 
        F         G                C  G   they could not see what it was for.

        C (add G)but now i'm sleeping fine, 
                               Fmaj7sometimes the truth is like a second chance,
                       Dm7i am the daughter of a great romance,
    F             G              C   Gand they are the children of the war.


(break) C (addG)   Fmaj7    Dm7    F    G    C    G 
  

         C (add G)                               Fmaj7well the sun rose with so many colors, it nearly broke my heart,
                         Dm7it worked me over like a work of art, 
    F        G           C   Gand i was a part of all that.

      C (add G)                                        Fmaj7so go ahead push your luck, say what it is you gotta say to me,
                          Dm7we will push on into that mystery,
          F                              G                 C   Gand it'll push right back, and there are worse things than that,

             C (add G)                              Fmaj7   cause for every price, and every penance that i could think of, 
                       Dm7     it's better to have fallen in love, 
        F             G          C  G   than never to have fallen at all,

               C (add G)                                   Fmaj7cause when you live in a world, well it gets into who you thought you'd be,
                           Dm7and now i laugh at how the world changed me,
F            G               C (add G)     Em    Am    G    C( add G) G C(add G)i think life chose me after all.