Shooting Star-Harry Chapin

[ti:Shooting Star] [ar:Harry Chapin] [al:The Elektra Collection (1971-1978)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Shooting Star (流星) - Harry Chapin [00:13.76]He was crazy of course [00:16.93]From the first she must have known it [00:19.97] [00:20.77]But still she went on with him [00:23.31] [00:23.93]And she never once had shown it [00:27.08]And she took him off the street [00:29.54] [00:30.27]And she dried his tears of grieving [00:34.23]She listened to his visions [00:37.33]She believed in his believe-ins [00:41.09] [00:42.24]Oh he was the sun burning bright and brittle [00:47.08]And she was the moon shining back his light a little [00:53.06]He was a shooting star [00:55.74]She was softer and more slowly [00:58.73]He could not make things possible [01:01.76]But she could make them holy [01:06.55]Holy [01:10.81] [01:13.66]He was dancing to some music [01:16.39] [01:16.99]No one else had ever heard [01:19.38] [01:20.27]He'd speak in unknown languages [01:23.36]She would translate every word [01:26.41]And then when the world was laughing [01:29.61]At his castles in the sky [01:32.43] [01:33.52]She'd hold him in her body [01:35.92] [01:36.52]Till he once again could fly [01:40.07] [01:41.31]Oh he was the sun burning bright and brittle [01:46.00]And she was the moon shining back his light a little [01:51.96]He was a shooting star [01:54.50]She was softer and more slowly [01:57.71]He could not make things possible [02:00.79]But she could make them holy [02:05.42]Holy [02:08.49] [02:12.03]Well she gave him a daughter [02:14.70] [02:15.30]And she gave him a son [02:18.24]She was a mother and a wife [02:21.06]And a lover when the day was done [02:24.62]He was too far gone for giving love [02:27.75]What he offered in it's stead [02:30.89]Was the knowledge she was the only thing [02:34.41]That was not in his head [02:40.50] [02:51.18]He took off East one morning [02:54.07]Towards the rising sun's red glow [02:56.73] [02:57.94]She knew he was going nowhere [03:00.58]But of course she let him go [03:03.38]And as she stood and watched him dwindle [03:06.88]Much too empty to be sad [03:09.56] [03:10.16]He reappeared beside her saying [03:13.35]"You're all I've ever had" [03:18.24] [03:19.71]Oh he was the sun burning bright and brittle [03:24.74]And she was the moon shining back his light a little [03:30.22]He was a shooting star [03:33.16]She was softer and more slowly [03:36.05]He could not make things possible [03:38.95]But she could make them holy [03:44.26] [03:45.38]Holy