History Of Us (Album Version)

History Of Us - Indigo Girls

I went all the way to Paris

To forget your face

Captured in stained glass

Young lives long since passed

Statues of lovers every place

I went all across the continent

To relieve this restless love

I walked through the ruins

Icons of glory smashed

By the bombs from above

So we must love

While these moments are still called today

Take part in the pain of this passion play

Stretching our youth as we must

Until we are ashes to dust

Until time makes history of us

Jeu De Paume's full of faces

Knowing peace knowing strife

Leisure and toil

Still it's canvas and oil

There's just no medium for life

In the midst of the rubble

I felt a sense of rebirth

In a dusty cathedral

The living God called

And I prayed for my life here on earth

So we must love

While these moments are still called today

Take part in the pain of this passion play

Stretching our youth as we must

Until we are ashes to dust

Until time makes history of us

There are mountains in Switzerland

Brilliant cold as they stand

From my hotel room

Watching the half moon

Bleeding its light like a lamb

And the town is illuminated

Its tiny figures are fast asleep

And it dawns on me

The time is upon me

To return to the flock I must keep

So we must love

While these moments are still called today

Take part in the pain of this passion play

Stretching our youth as we must

Until we are ashes to dust

Until time makes history of us