After All chords and lyrics - DAR WILLIAMS

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[Verse 1]
[C]Go [G]ahe[C]ad push your luck
Find out how much love
[F]the world can hold
Once upon a time I [Dm]had control and
[F]reined my [G]soul in [C]tight[G]

[Verse 2]
Well [C]the whole truth
Is like the story of [F]a wave unfurled
But I held the evil of the [Dm]world
So [F]I stopped the tide froze
it [G]up from inside
And it [C]felt like
A winter machine that
you go through [F]and [G]then
[F]You catch you[C]r breath and
winter [Dm]starts again
And every[F]one [G]else is [C]spring [G]bound
And when [C]I chose to

[Verse 3]
live
There was no joy it's just
[F]a line I crossed
It wasn't worth the pain
my [Dm]death would cost
So [F]I was not l[G]ost or f[C]ound[G]
And if [C]I was to sleep

[Verse 4]
I knew my family had more [F]truth to tell
And so I traveled down a
[Dm]whispering well
To know [F]myself [G]through the[C]m[G]

[Verse 5]
Growing [C]up my mom had
a room full of books
And hid [F]away in there
Her father raging down a [Dm]spiral stair
Till he [F]found someone, most [G]days his son

[Verse 6]
And [C]sometimes I think
My father, too, is a [F]refugee
I know they tried to keep
their [Dm]pain from me
They [F]could not [G]see what it [C]was [G]for
But now I'm [C]sleeping fine

[Verse 7]
Sometimes [C]the truth is like
a [F]second chance
I am the daughter of a [Dm]great romance
And [F]they are the chil[G]dren of [C]the war
[G]

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 8]
Well, the sun [C]rose
With so many colors it nearly [F]broke my heart
It worked me over like a [Dm]work of art
And [F]I was a[G] part of a[C]ll t[G]hat

[Verse 9]
So go [C]ahead push your luck
Say what it is you gotta [F]say to me
We will push on into that [Dm]mystery
And it will [F]push right back
And there are [G]worse things than that
'Cause for [C]every price
And every penance that I [F]could think of
It's better to [Dm]have fallen in love
Than [F]never to have [G]fallen at all
[C][G]

[Verse 10]
'Cause when you [C]live in a world
Well it gets in to who you
[F]thought you'd be
And now I laugh at how
[Dm]the world changed me
I [F]think life [G]chose me

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After all
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