After All - Dar Williams [sync'd lyrics] Chords

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