Biography:
American singer-songwriter Dar Williams lives at the intersection of pop and folk. She fuses many genres (blues, rock, jazz), resulting in a rather organic sound. She has been making music for over a decade.
Her studio album My Better Self finds Dar at an unequivocally brazen crossroads. Reflecting on American politics, the disillusionment and apathy of youth, and the female experience, Dar makes no apology for her outspoken beliefs.
Her 2008 album, entitled Promised Land.
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Other songs:
- The Christians And The Pagans
- You're Aging Well
- After All
- Another Mystery
- Are You Out There
- Arrival
- As Cool As I Am
- Blue Light Of The Flame
- Book Of Love
- Bought And Sold
- Buzzer
- Closer To Me
- Crystal Creek
- Echoes
- Empire
- Family
- Farewell To The Old Me
- February
- Fishing In The Morning
- Flinty Kind Of Woman
- Here Tonight
- Holly Tree
- I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything
- I Had No Right
- I Have Been Around The World
- I Have Lost My Dreams
- I Saw A Bird Fly Away
- If I Wrote You
- Iowa
- It Happens Every Day
- Its Alright
- Mercy Of The Fallen
- Miss You Till I Meet You
- Party Generation
- Playing To The Firmament
- So Close To My Heart
- Southern California Wants To Be Western New York
- Spring Street
- Summer Child
- Summerday
- Teen For God
- The Babysitters Here
- The Beauty Of The Rain
- The Blessings
- The Business Of Things
- The Easy Way
- The Light And The Sea
- The Mercy Of The Fallen
- The Ocean
- The One Who Knows
- The Pointless Yet Poignant Crisis Of A Co
- The Tide Falls Away
- The Worlds Not Falling Apart
- This Earth
- Traveling Again Traveling I
- What Do You Hear In These Sounds
- What Do You Love More Than Love
- When I Was A Boy
- Your Fire Your Soul
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Dar Williams - The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis Of A Co-Ed
INTRO: Dm G Am
Dm
I'm not a leader
G C
I'm not a left-wing rhetoric mobilizing force of one
Dm
But there was a time way back
G C
Many years ago in college, don't laugh
Dm
But I thought I was a radical
G Am
I ran a Hemp Liberation group with my boyfriend
Dm
It was true love
G C G Am
With a common cause, and besides that, he was a Sagittarius
Dm
We used to say that our love was like hemp rope
G Am
Three times as strong as the rope that you find domestically
Dm
And we would bond in the face
G C
Of oppression from big business and the deans
Dm
But I knew there was a problem
G Am
Every time the group would meet, everyone would light up
Dm
Made it difficult
G C G Am
To discuss glaucoma and human rights, not to mention chemotherapy
INSTRUMENTAL: (Godawful discordant racket)
Dm
Well sometimes
G Am
Life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging
Dm G C
So I found him in the arms of a Student Against The Treacherous Use Of Fur
Dm
And he gave no apology
G Am
He just turned to me, stoned out to the edge of oblivion
Dm G C
He didn't pull up the sheets and I think he even smiled as he said to me,
N.C.
"Well, I guess our dreams went up in smoke, uh huh huh"
And I said, "No, our dreams went up in dreams, you stupid pothead"
Dm
And another thing,
G Am
"What kind of a name is Students Against the Treacherous Use of Fur?
Dm
Fur is already dead
G C G Am
And besides, a name like that doesn't make a good acronym"
Dm
I am older now
G Am
I know the rise and gradual fall of a daily victory
Dm
And I still write to my senators
G C
Saying they should legalize cannabis, and I should know
Dm
'Cause I am a horticulturist
G Am
I have a husband and two children out in Lexington, Mass.
Dm G
And my ex-boyfriend can't tell me I've sold out
C G
Because he's in a cult
C G C
And he's not allowed to talk to me
INTRO: Dm G Am
Dm
I'm not a leader
G C
I'm not a left-wing rhetoric mobilizing force of one
Dm
But there was a time way back
G C
Many years ago in college, don't laugh
Dm
But I thought I was a radical
G Am
I ran a Hemp Liberation group with my boyfriend
Dm
It was true love
G C G Am
With a common cause, and besides that, he was a Sagittarius
Dm
We used to say that our love was like hemp rope
G Am
Three times as strong as the rope that you find domestically
Dm
And we would bond in the face
G C
Of oppression from big business and the deans
Dm
But I knew there was a problem
G Am
Every time the group would meet, everyone would light up
Dm
Made it difficult
G C G Am
To discuss glaucoma and human rights, not to mention chemotherapy
INSTRUMENTAL: (Godawful discordant racket)
Dm
Well sometimes
G Am
Life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging
Dm G C
So I found him in the arms of a Student Against The Treacherous Use Of Fur
Dm
And he gave no apology
G Am
He just turned to me, stoned out to the edge of oblivion
Dm G C
He didn't pull up the sheets and I think he even smiled as he said to me,
N.C.
"Well, I guess our dreams went up in smoke, uh huh huh"
And I said, "No, our dreams went up in dreams, you stupid pothead"
Dm
And another thing,
G Am
"What kind of a name is Students Against the Treacherous Use of Fur?
Dm
Fur is already dead
G C G Am
And besides, a name like that doesn't make a good acronym"
Dm
I am older now
G Am
I know the rise and gradual fall of a daily victory
Dm
And I still write to my senators
G C
Saying they should legalize cannabis, and I should know
Dm
'Cause I am a horticulturist
G Am
I have a husband and two children out in Lexington, Mass.
Dm G
And my ex-boyfriend can't tell me I've sold out
C G
Because he's in a cult
C G C
And he's not allowed to talk to me
Dark Tranquillit (...)
Darkness
Darlene Love
Darlene Zschech
Darling