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You're Aging Well
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Joan Baez
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Why is it that as we grow older and stronger
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The road signs point us adrift and make us afraid
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Sayin', "You never can win
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Watch your back, where's your husband?"
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I don't like the signs that the signmakers made
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So I'm gonna steal out with my paint and my brushes
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I'll change the directions, I'll hit every street
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It's the Tinseltown scandal, the Robin Hood vandal
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She goes out and steals the King's English
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And in the morning you wake up and the signs point to you
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They say, "I'm so glad that you finally made it here
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You thought nobody cared but I did, I could tell
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And this is your year and it always starts here
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And oh oh oh, you're aging well"
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Now I know a woman with a collection of sticks
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She could fight back the hundreds of voices she heard
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She could poke at the greed, she could fend off her need
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And in anger she found she could pound every word
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But one voice got through and caught her up by surprise
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It said, "Don't hold us back, we're the story you tell"
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No sooner than spoken the spell had been broken
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And the voices before her were trumpets and tympani
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Violins, basses and woodwinds and cellos
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Singing, "We're so glad that you finally made it here
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You thought nobody cared, but we did, we could tell
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Now you'll dance through the days while the orchestra plays
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And oh oh oh, you're aging well"
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Now when I was fifteen, no I knew it was over
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The road to enchantment was not mine to take
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'Cause lower calf, upper arm should be half what they are
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I was breaking the laws that the signmakers made
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And all I could eat was the poisonous apple
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And that's not a story I was meant to survive
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An' I was all out of choices but the woman of voices
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She turned 'round the corner with music around her
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She gave me the language that keeps me alive
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She said, "I'm so glad that you finally made it here
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With the things you know now, that only time could tell
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Looking back, seeing far, landing right where we are
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And oh oh oh, you're aging, oh oh oh, and I am aging
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Oh oh oh, aren't we aging well?"
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