Story Of A Life-Harry Chapin

[ti:Story Of A Life] [ar:Harry Chapin] [al:Sequel] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Story Of A Life - Harry Chapin [00:16.02]I can see myself it's a golden sunrise [00:18.92]Young boy open up your eyes [00:21.12]It's supposed to be your day [00:23.11] [00:26.17]Now off you go horizon bound [00:29.00]And you won't stop until you've found [00:31.56]Your own kind of way [00:33.27] [00:36.64]And the wind will whip your tousled hair [00:39.14]The sun the rain the sweet despair [00:41.52] [00:42.46]Great tales of love and strife [00:45.19] [00:47.00]And somewhere on your path to glory [00:49.36]You will write your story of a life [00:53.57] [00:57.31]And all the towns that you walk through [00:59.91]And all the people that you talk to [01:02.65]Sing you their songs [01:04.52] [01:07.52]And there are times you change your stride [01:10.77]There are times you can't decide [01:12.27] [01:13.21]Still you go on [01:14.95] [01:17.27]And then the young girls dance their gypsy tunes [01:20.52]And share the secrets of the moon [01:23.13]So soon you find a wife [01:26.94] [01:28.00]And though she sees your dreams go poorly [01:30.81]Still she joins your story of a life [01:34.74] [01:48.72]So you settle down and the children come [01:51.30]And you find a place that you come from [01:53.92]Your wandering is done [01:56.00] [01:59.12]And all your dreams of open spaces [02:01.58]You find in your children's faces [02:04.39]One by one [02:06.51] [02:09.44]And all the trips you know you missed [02:12.07]And all the lips you never kissed [02:14.43]Cut through you like a knife [02:18.12] [02:19.50]And now you see stretched out before thee [02:22.35]Just another story of a life [02:25.90] [02:29.08]So what do you do now [02:30.89] [02:31.52]When she looks at you now [02:33.46] [02:34.14]You know those same old jokes all the jesters tell [02:37.20]You tell them to her now [02:38.71] [02:42.08]And all the same old songs all the minstrels sang [02:44.81]You sing 'em to her now [02:46.80] [02:49.49]But it don't matter anyhow [02:51.38] [02:51.93]'Cause she knows by now [02:54.22] [03:04.68]So every chance you take don't mean a thing [03:07.80]What variations can you bring [03:10.22]To this shopworn melody [03:14.40] [03:15.03]And every year goes by like a tollin' bell [03:17.96]It's battered merchandise you sell [03:20.43]Not well she can see [03:23.19] [03:25.30]And though she's heard it all a thousand times [03:28.43]Couched in your attempted rhymes [03:30.80]She'll march to your drum and fife [03:35.34] [03:36.09]But the question echoes up before me [03:38.84]Where's the magic story of a life [03:44.37] [04:06.96]Now sometimes words can serve me well [04:10.31]Sometimes words can go to hell [04:12.69]For all that they do [04:14.62] [04:17.55]And for every dream that took me high [04:20.23]There's been a dream that's passed me by [04:22.76]I know it's so true [04:25.09] [04:27.45]And I can see it clear out to the end [04:30.58]And I'll whisper to her now again [04:34.13]Because she shared my life [04:37.13] [04:37.94]For more than all the ghosts of glory [04:40.81]She makes up the story [04:43.95] [04:45.13]She's the only story [04:49.56] [04:50.50]Of my life