Go ahead, push your luck
   Find out how much love the world can hold
   Once upon a time I had control
   And reigned my soul in tight
  
   Well the whole truth
   Is like the story of a wave unfurled
   But I held the evil of the world
   So I stopped the tide
   Froze it up from inside
  
   And it felt like a winter machine
   That you go through and then
   You catch your breath and winter starts again
   And everyone else is spring bound
  
   And when I chose to live
   There was no joy - it's just a line I crossed
   It wasn't worth the pain my death would cost
   So I was not lost or found
   And if I was to sleep
   I knew my family had more truth to tell
   And so I traveled down a whispering well
   To know my self through them
  
   Growing up, my Mom had a room full of books
   And hid a way in there
   Her father raging down a spiral stair
   'Til he found someone
   Most days his son
  
   And sometimes I think
   My father, too, was a refugee
   I know they tried to keep their pain from me
   They could not see what it was for
  
   But now I'm sleeping fine
   Sometimes the truth is like a second chance
   I am the daughter of a great romance
   And they are the children of the war
  
   Well the sun rose with so many colors
   It nearly broke my heart
   And worked me over like a work of art
   And I was a part of all that
  
   So go ahead, push your luck
   Say what it is you've got to say to me
   We will push on in to that mystery
   And it'll push right back
   And there are worse things than that
  
   'Cause for every price
   And every penance that I could think of
   It's better to have fallen in love
   Than never to have fallen at all
  
   'Cause when you live in a world
   Well it gets in to who you thought you'd be
   And now I laugh at how the world changed me
   I think life chose me after all