Adrienne Rich - In Those Years lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - In Those Years lyrics]
In those years, people will say
We lost track of the meaning of we, of you
We found ourselves reduced to I
And the whole thing became
Silly, ironic, terrible:
We were trying to live a personal life
And, yes, that was the only life
We could bear witness to
But the great dark birds of
History screamed and plunged
Into our personal weather
They were headed somewhere else but
Their breaks and pinions drove
Along the shore, through rages of fog
Where we stood, saying I
We lost track of the meaning of we, of you
We found ourselves reduced to I
And the whole thing became
Silly, ironic, terrible:
We were trying to live a personal life
And, yes, that was the only life
We could bear witness to
But the great dark birds of
History screamed and plunged
Into our personal weather
They were headed somewhere else but
Their breaks and pinions drove
Along the shore, through rages of fog
Where we stood, saying I