Taxi lyrics

Artist  : Harry Chapin 
Song : Taxi
 


It was raining hard in 'Frisco,
I needed one
more fare to make my night.
A lady up ahead
waved to flag me down,
She got in at the
light.
Oh, where you going to, my lady
blue,
It's a shame you ruined your gown in the
rain.
She just looked out the window, and
said
"Sixteen Parkside Lane".
Something
about her was familiar
I could swear I'd seen
her face before,
But she said, "I'm sure
you're mistaken"
And she didn't say anything
more.
It took a while, but she looked in the
mirror,
And she glanced at the license for my
name.
A smile seemed to come to her
slowly,
It was a sad smile, just the
same.
And she said, "How are you Harry?"
I
said, "How are you Sue?
Through the too many
miles
and the too little smiles
I still
remember you."
It was somewhere in a fairy
tale,
I used to take her home in my car.
We
learned about love in the back of the
Dodge,
The lesson hadn't gone too far.
You
see, she was gonna be an actress,
And I was
gonna learn to fly.
She took off to find the
footlights,
And I took off to find the
sky.
Oh, I've got something inside me,
To
drive a princess blind.
There's a wild man,
wizard,
He's hiding in me, illuminating my
mind.
Oh, I've got something inside me,
Not
what my life's about,
Cause I've been letting
my outside tide me,
Over 'till my time, runs
out.
Baby's so high that she's skying,
Yes
she's flying, afraid to fall.
I'll tell you
why baby's crying,
Cause she's dying, aren't
we all.
There was not much more for us to talk
about,
Whatever we had once was gone.
So I
turned my cab into the driveway,
Past the gate
and the fine trimmed lawns.
And she said we
must get together,
But I knew it'd never be
arranged.
And she handed me twenty
dollars,
For a two fifty fare, she
said
"Harry, keep the change."
Well another
man might have been angry,
And another man
might have been hurt,
But another man never
would have let her go...
I stashed the bill in
my shirt.
And she walked away in
silence,
It's strange, how you never
know,
But we'd both gotten what we'd asked
for,
Such a long, long time ago.
You see,
she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna
learn to fly.
She took off to find the
footlights,
And I took off for the sky.
And
here, she's acting happy,
Inside her handsome
home.
And me, I'm flying in my taxi,
Taking
tips, and getting stoned,
I go flying so high,
when I'm stoned.