《You’re Aging Well》歌词

[00:00:00] You're Aging Well - Dar Williams

[00:00:22] Why is it that as we grow older and stronger

[00:00:26] The road signs point us adrift and make us afraid

[00:00:30] Saying 'You never can win'

[00:00:32] 'Watch your back' 'Where's your husband '

[00:00:35] I don't like the signs that the signmakers made

[00:00:40] So I'm going to steal out with my paint and brushes

[00:00:44] I'll change the directions I'll hit every street

[00:00:49] It's the Tinseltown scandal the robin hood vandal

[00:00:54] She goes out and steals the king's English

[00:00:58] And in the morning you wake up and the signs point to you

[00:01:02] They say "I'm so glad that you finally made it here

[00:01:06] You thought nobody cared but I did I could tell

[00:01:11] And this is your year and it always starts here

[00:01:15] And oh you're aging well"

[00:01:30] Well I know a woman with a collection of sticks

[00:01:34] She could fight back the hundreds of voices she heard

[00:01:38] She could poke at the greed she could fend off her need

[00:01:42] And with anger she found she could pound every word

[00:01:48] But one voice got through caught her up by surprise

[00:01:52] It said "Don't hold us back we're the story you tell"

[00:01:57] And no sooner than spoken a spell had been broken

[00:02:02] And the voices before her were trumpets and tympani

[00:02:07] Violins basses and woodwinds and cellos singing

[00:02:11] "We're so glad that you finally made it here

[00:02:14] You thought nobody cared but we did we could tell

[00:02:19] And now you'll dance through the days while the orchestra plays

[00:02:23] And oh you're aging well"

[00:02:51] Now when I was fifteen oh I knew it was over

[00:02:55] The road to enchantment was not mine to take

[00:03:00] 'Cause lower calf upper arm should be half what they are

[00:03:04] I was breaking the laws that the signmakers made

[00:03:10] And all I could eat was the poisonous apple

[00:03:14] And that's not a story I was meant to survive

[00:03:19] I was all out of choices but the woman of voices

[00:03:23] She turned round the corner with music around her

[00:03:28] She gave me the language that keeps me alive she said

[00:03:33] "I'm so glad that you finally made it here

[00:03:36] With the things you know now that only time could tell

[00:03:41] Looking back seeing far landing right where we are

[00:03:45] And oh you're aging oh and I am aging oh aren't we aging well "