Joan Baez - You're Aging Well lyrics

Why is it that as we grow older and stronger
The road signs point us adrift
And make us afraid
Saying, 'You never can win'
'Watch your back', 'Where's your husband?'
I don't like the signs
That the signmakers made

So I'm going to steal out
With my paint and 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
And in the morning you wake up
And the signs point to you 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 with anger she found she
Could pound every word

But one voice got through
Caught her up by surprise it said
"Don't hold us back we're the story you tell"
And no sooner than spoken
A spell had been broken
And the voices before her
Were trumpets and tympani
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
And now you'll dance through the
Days while the orchestra plays
And oh, you're aging well"

Now when I was fifteen, oh 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 signmakers made
And all I could eat was the poisonous apple
And that's not a story I was meant to survive
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 could tell
Looking back, seeing far
Landing right where we are
And oh, you're aging, oh and I am aging oh
Aren't we aging well?"