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You're Aging Well (Live)
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Alternative Folk
You're Aging Well (Live) was released on September 23, 1997 by Razor & Tie as a part of the album Gone From Danger
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Release DateSeptember 23, 1997
LabelRazor & Tie
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Joan Baez
Joan Baez
Vocals, Guitar
Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Vocals, Guitar
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Dar Williams
Dar Williams
Composer, Lyrics
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Andy Ridenour
Andy Ridenour
Producer

Lyrics

Why is it that as we grow older and stronger
The road signs point us adrift and make us afraid
Saying you never care, watch your back, where's your husband
Oh I don't like the signs that the sign makers made
So I'm gonna steal out with my paint and my brushes
I'll change the directions, I'll hit every street
It's the Tinseltown scandal, the Robin Hood vandal
She goes out and steals the king's English
In the morning you wake up and the signs point to
They say I'm so glad that you finally made it here
You thought nobody cared but I did, I could tell
And this is your year and it always starts here
And oh, you're aging well
Well I know a woman with a collection of sticks
She could fight back the hundreds of voices she heard
She could poke at the greed, she could fend off her need
And in anger she found she could pound every word
But one voice got through and caught her up by surprise
Saying don't hold us back, we're the story you tell
But sooner than spoken the spell had been broken
And the voices before were trumpets and timpani
Violins, basses and woodwinds and cellos singing
We're so glad that you finally made it here
You thought nobody cared but we did, we could tell
Now you dance through the days while the orchestra plays
And oh, you're aging well
When I was fifteen all I knew it was over
The road to enchantment was not mine to take
'Cause lower calf, upper arm should be half what they are
I was breaking the laws that the sign makers made
And all I could eat was the poisonous apple
And that's not a story I was meant to survive
And I was all out of choices but the woman of voices
She turned 'round the corner with music around her
She gave me the language that keeps me alive
She said I'm so glad that you finally made it here
With the things you know now that only time can tell
Looking back, seeing far, landing right where we are
And oh, you're aging oh
And I'm aging oh
Aren't we aging well
Written by: Dar Williams
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