After All Chords by Dar Williams

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