Indigo Girls History of Us song lyrics

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 illumined, 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