After All chords

[C] (add [G]) [Fmaj7]
go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold,
once upon a time i [Dm7]had control, and r[F]eigned my s[G]oul in t[C]ight[G] .

[C] (add [G]) [Fmaj7]
well the whole truth, it's like the story of a wave unfurled,
but i held the evil [Dm7]of the world,
so [F]i stopped the tide, froze it [G]up from inside,

[C] (add [G]) [Fmaj7]
and it felt like a winter machine that you go through and then,
you catch your breath and winter s[Dm7]tarts again,
and e[F]veryone e[G]lse is spring b[C]ound[G] .

[C] (add [G]) [Fmaj7]
and when i chose to live, there was no joy, it's just a line i crossed
it wasn't worth the pain my [Dm7]death would have cost
so [F]i was not l[G]ost or fo[C]und.[G]

[C] (add [G]) [Fmaj7]
and if i was to sleep, i knew my family had more truth to tell.
and so i traveled down a [Dm7]whispering well,
to [F]know myse[G]lf through [C]the[G]m.

[C] (addG) [Fmaj7]
growing up, my mom had a room full of books, and hid away in there,
her father raging down a s[Dm7]piral stair,
till [F]he found someone, most d[G]ays his son,

[C] (add [G]) [Fmaj7]
and sometimes i think my father, too, was a refugee,
i know they tried to keep their [Dm7]pain from me,
they [F]could not [G]see what it was f[C]or.[G]

[C] (add [G])
but now i'm sleeping fine,
sometimes the truth is like a s[Fmaj7]econd chance,
i am the daughter of a [Dm7]great romance,
and [F]they are the c[G]hildren of the [C]war.[G]

(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,
it worked me over like a [Dm7]work of art,
and [F]i was a p[G]art of all t[C]hat.[G]

[C] (add [G]) [Fmaj7]
so go ahead push your luck, say what it is you gotta say to me,
we will push on into that [Dm7]mystery,
and it'll [F]push right back, and there are [G]worse things than [C]that[G] ,

[C] (add [G]) [Fmaj7]
cause for every price, and every penance that i could think of,
it's better to have [Dm7]fallen in love,
than [F]never to have [G]fallen at a[C]ll,[G]

[C] (add [G]) [Fmaj7]
cause when you live in a world, well it gets into who you thought you'd be,
and now i laugh at how the [Dm7]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.