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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After All
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go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold,
Dm7 F G C G
once upon a time i had control, and reigned my soul in tight.
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well the whole truth, it's like the story of a wave unfurled,
Dm7
but i held the evil of the world,
F G
so i stopped the tide, froze it up from inside,
C (add G) Fmaj7
and it felt like a winter machine that you go through and then,
Dm7
you catch your breath and winter starts again,
F G C G
and everyone else is spring bound.
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and when i chose to live, there was no joy, it's just a line i crossed
Dm7
it wasn't worth the pain my death would have cost
F G C G
so i was not lost or found.
C (add G) Fmaj7
and if i was to sleep, i knew my family had more truth to tell.
Dm7
and so i traveled down a whispering well,
F G C G
to know myself through them.
C (addG) Fmaj7
growing up, my mom had a room full of books, and hid away in there,
Dm7
her father raging down a spiral stair,
F G
till he found someone, most days his son,
C (add G) Fmaj7
and sometimes i think my father, too, was a refugee,
Dm7
i know they tried to keep their pain from me,
F G C G
they could not see what it was for.
C (add G)
but now i'm sleeping fine,
Fmaj7
sometimes the truth is like a second chance,
Dm7
i am the daughter of a great romance,
F G C G
and they are the children of the war.
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well the sun rose with so many colors, it nearly broke my heart,
Dm7
it worked me over like a work of art,
F G C G
and i was a part of all that.
C (add G) Fmaj7
so go ahead push your luck, say what it is you gotta say to me,
Dm7
we will push on into that mystery,
F G C G
and it'll push right back, and there are worse things than that,
C (add G) Fmaj7
cause for every price, and every penance that i could think of,
Dm7
it's better to have fallen in love,
F G C G
than never to have fallen at all,
C (add G) Fmaj7
cause when you live in a world, well it gets into who you thought you'd be,
Dm7
and now i laugh at how the world changed me,
F G C (add G) Em Am G C( add G) G C(add G)
i think life chose me after all.
C (add G) Fmaj7
go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold,
Dm7 F G C G
once upon a time i had control, and reigned my soul in tight.
C (add G) Fmaj7
well the whole truth, it's like the story of a wave unfurled,
Dm7
but i held the evil of the world,
F G
so i stopped the tide, froze it up from inside,
C (add G) Fmaj7
and it felt like a winter machine that you go through and then,
Dm7
you catch your breath and winter starts again,
F G C G
and everyone else is spring bound.
C (add G) Fmaj7
and when i chose to live, there was no joy, it's just a line i crossed
Dm7
it wasn't worth the pain my death would have cost
F G C G
so i was not lost or found.
C (add G) Fmaj7
and if i was to sleep, i knew my family had more truth to tell.
Dm7
and so i traveled down a whispering well,
F G C G
to know myself through them.
C (addG) Fmaj7
growing up, my mom had a room full of books, and hid away in there,
Dm7
her father raging down a spiral stair,
F G
till he found someone, most days his son,
C (add G) Fmaj7
and sometimes i think my father, too, was a refugee,
Dm7
i know they tried to keep their pain from me,
F G C G
they could not see what it was for.
C (add G)
but now i'm sleeping fine,
Fmaj7
sometimes the truth is like a second chance,
Dm7
i am the daughter of a great romance,
F G C G
and they are the children of the war.
(break) C (addG) Fmaj7 Dm7 F G C G
C (add G) Fmaj7
well the sun rose with so many colors, it nearly broke my heart,
Dm7
it worked me over like a work of art,
F G C G
and i was a part of all that.
C (add G) Fmaj7
so go ahead push your luck, say what it is you gotta say to me,
Dm7
we will push on into that mystery,
F G C G
and it'll push right back, and there are worse things than that,
C (add G) Fmaj7
cause for every price, and every penance that i could think of,
Dm7
it's better to have fallen in love,
F G C G
than never to have fallen at all,
C (add G) Fmaj7
cause when you live in a world, well it gets into who you thought you'd be,
Dm7
and now i laugh at how the world changed me,
F G C (add G) Em Am G C( add G) G C(add G)
i think life chose me after all.
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