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Harry Chapin
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So here she's actin' happy inside her handsome home
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And me, I'm flyin' in my taxi, takin' tips and gettin' stoned.
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I got into town a little early.
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Had eight hours to kill before the show.
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First I thought about heading up north of the bay
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Then I knew where I had to go.
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I thought about taking a limousine
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Or at least a fancy car.
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But I ended up taking a taxi
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'Cause that's how I got this far.
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You see, ten years ago it was the front seat
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Drivin' stoned and feelin' no pain.
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Now here I am straight and sittin' in the back
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Hitting Sixteen Parkside Lane.
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The driveway was the same as I remembered
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And a butler came and answered the door.
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He just shook his head when I asked for her
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And said "She doesn't live here anymore."
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But he offered to give me the address
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That they were forwarding her letters to.
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I just took it and returned to the cabbie
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And said "I got one more fare for you."
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And so we rolled back into the city
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Up to a five-story old brownstone
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I rang the bell that had her name on the mailbox.
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The buzzer said somebody's home.
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And the look on her face as she opened the door
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Was like an old joke told by a friend.
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It'd taken ten more years but she'd found her smile
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And I watched the corners start to bend.
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And she said, "How are you Harry?
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Haven't we played this scene before?"
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I said "It's so good to see you, Sue
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Had to play it out just once more."
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Play it out just once more".
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She said "I've heard you flying high on my radio"
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I answered "It's not all it seems"
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That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes
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When we don't get to touch our dreams."
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That's when I asked her where was that actress
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She said "That was somebody else"
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And then I asked her why she looked so happy now
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She said "I finally like myself; at last I like myself."
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So we talked all through that afternoon
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Talking about where we'd been
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We talked of the tiny difference
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Between ending and starting to begin.
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We talked because talking tells you things
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Like what you really are thinking about.
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But sometimes you can't find what you're feeling
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Till all the words run out.
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So I asked her to come to the concert.
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She said "No, I work at night."
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I said, "We've gotten too damn good at leaving, Sue"
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She said, "Harry, you're right."
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Don't ask me if I made love to her
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Or which one of us started to cry
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Don't ask me why she wouldn't take the money that I left
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If I answered at all I'd lie.
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So I thought about her as I sang that night
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And how the circle keeps rolling around.
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How I act as I'm facing the footlights
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And how she's flying with both feet on the ground.
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I guess it's a sequel to our story
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From the journey 'tween heaven and hell
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With half the time thinking of what might have been
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and half thinkin' just as well.
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I guess only time will tell.
Harry Chapin - Taxi
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