Youre Aging Well - Dar Williams
Artist : “Dar Williams”
Song title : “Youre Aging Well”
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why is it that as we grow older and stronger
The road signs point us adrift and make us afraid
Saying you never can win
Watch your back
Where's your husband?
Oh
I don't like the signs that the signmakers made
So i'm going to steal out with my paint and brushes
I'll change the directions
I'll hit every street
It's the tinseltown scandal
The robin hood vandal
She goes out and steals the king's english
And in the morning you wake up and the signs point to you
They say
I'm so glad that you finally made it here
You thought nobody cared
But i did
I could tell
And this is your year
And it always starts here
And oh you're aging well
Well i know a woman with a collection of sticks
She could fight back the hundreds of voices she heard
And she could poke at the greed
She could fend off her need
And with anger she found she could pound every word
But one voice got through
Caught her up by surprise
It said
Don't hold us back
We're the story you tell
And no sooner than spoken
A spell had been broken
And the voices before her were trumpets and tympani
Violins
Basses and woodwinds and cellos
Singing
We're so glad that you finally made it here
You thought nobody cared
But we did
We could tell
And now you'll dance through the days while the orchestra plays
And oh
You're aging well
Now when i was fifteen
Oh
I knew it was over
The road to enchantment was not mine to take
'cause lower calf
Upper arm should be half what they are
I was breaking the laws that the signmakers made
And all i could eat was the poisonous apple
And that's not a story i was meant to survive
I was all out of choices
But the woman of voices
She turned round the corner with music around her
She gave me the language that keeps me alive
She said