You're Aging Well-Dar Williams

[ti:You're Aging Well] [ar:Dar Williams] [al:The Honesty Room] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]You're Aging Well - Dar Williams [00:22.40]Why is it that as we grow older and stronger [00:26.63]The road signs point us adrift and make us afraid [00:30.96]Saying 'You never can win' [00:32.65]'Watch your back' 'Where's your husband ' [00:34.66] [00:35.20]I don't like the signs that the signmakers made [00:40.81]So I'm going to steal out with my paint and brushes [00:44.92]I'll change the directions I'll hit every street [00:49.67]It's the Tinseltown scandal the robin hood vandal [00:54.03]She goes out and steals the king's English [00:58.15]And in the morning you wake up and the signs point to you [01:02.47]They say "I'm so glad that you finally made it here [01:06.97]You thought nobody cared but I did I could tell [01:11.60]And this is your year and it always starts here [01:15.20]And oh you're aging well" [01:30.01]Well I know a woman with a collection of sticks [01:34.27]She could fight back the hundreds of voices she heard [01:38.58]She could poke at the greed she could fend off her need [01:42.66]And with anger she found she could pound every word [01:48.75]But one voice got through caught her up by surprise [01:52.96]It said "Don't hold us back we're the story you tell" [01:57.37]And no sooner than spoken a spell had been broken [02:02.09]And the voices before her were trumpets and tympani [02:07.17]Violins basses and woodwinds and cellos singing [02:11.63]"We're so glad that you finally made it here [02:13.84] [02:14.92]You thought nobody cared but we did we could tell [02:19.44]And now you'll dance through the days while the orchestra plays [02:23.65]And oh you're aging well" [02:51.19]Now when I was fifteen oh I knew it was over [02:55.61]The road to enchantment was not mine to take [03:00.06]'Cause lower calf upper arm should be half what they are [03:04.13]I was breaking the laws that the signmakers made [03:10.23]And all I could eat was the poisonous apple [03:14.67]And that's not a story I was meant to survive [03:19.02]I was all out of choices but the woman of voices [03:23.54]She turned round the corner with music around her [03:28.71]She gave me the language that keeps me alive she said [03:33.26]"I'm so glad that you finally made it here [03:36.83]With the things you know now that only time could tell [03:41.40]Looking back seeing far landing right where we are [03:45.59]And oh you're aging oh and I am aging oh aren't we aging well "