Sequel-Harry Chapin

[ti:Sequel] [ar:Harry Chapin] [al:Sequel] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.69]So here she's actin' happy inside her handsome home [00:07.24] [00:08.24]And me I'm flyin' in my taxi takin' tips and gettin' stoned [00:15.37] [00:21.24]I got into town a little early [00:23.67] [00:24.80]Had eight hours to kill before the show [00:27.42] [00:28.23]First I thought about heading up north of the bay [00:31.37] [00:31.93]Then I knew where I had to go [00:34.24] [00:37.92]I thought about taking a limousine [00:40.10] [00:41.29]Or at least a fancy car [00:43.97] [00:44.97]But I ended up taking a taxi [00:48.10] [00:48.66]'Cause that's how I got this far [00:51.53] [00:54.08]You see ten years ago it was the front seat [00:58.02]Drivin' stoned and feelin' no pain [01:00.82] [01:02.01]Now here I am straight and sittin' in the back [01:05.44]Hitting Sixteen Parkside Lane [01:08.26] [01:19.80]The driveway was the same as I remembered [01:23.24]And a butler came and answered the door [01:26.66]He just shook his head when I asked for her [01:29.85] [01:30.47]And said "She doesn't live here anymore " [01:34.10] [01:38.03]But he offered to give me the address [01:41.65]That they were forwarding her letters to [01:45.42]I just took it and returned to the cabbie [01:48.22]And said "I got one more fare for you " [01:52.76] [01:56.88]And so we rolled back into the city [01:59.50] [02:00.43]Up to a five-story old brownstone [02:03.15] [02:04.03]I rang the bell that had her name on the mailbox [02:07.60] [02:08.48]The buzzer said somebody's home [02:11.47] [02:21.27]And the look on her face as she opened the door [02:24.53]Was like an old joke told by a friend [02:27.84] [02:28.46]It'd taken ten more years but she'd found her smile [02:32.39]And I watched the corners start to bend [02:35.98] [02:37.91]And she said "How are you Harry [02:40.97] [02:41.65]Haven't we played this scene before " [02:44.86] [02:45.61]I said "It's so good to see you Sue [02:49.20]Had to play it out just once more " [02:52.39] [02:53.63]Play it out just once more" [02:55.87] [03:05.79]She said "I've heard you flying high on my radio" [03:09.60]I answered "It's not all it seems" [03:12.53] [03:13.28]That's when she laughed and she said "It's better sometimes [03:17.03]When we don't get to touch our dreams " [03:20.33] [03:28.23]That's when I asked her where was that actress [03:31.60] [03:32.41]She said "That was somebody else" [03:35.78]And then I asked her why she looked so happy now [03:39.35]She said "I finally like myself; at last I like myself " [03:47.65] [04:15.98]So we talked all through that afternoon [04:18.84] [04:19.90]Talking about where we'd been [04:22.09] [04:23.27]We talked of the tiny difference [04:26.51]Between ending and starting to begin [04:29.71] [04:30.77]We talked because talking tells you things [04:33.84]Like what you really are thinking about [04:37.02] [04:37.96]But sometimes you can't find what you're feeling [04:41.90]Till all the words run out [04:44.83] [04:52.26]So I asked her to come to the concert [04:55.69] [04:56.38]She said "No I work at night " [04:58.94] [04:59.63]I said "We've gotten too damn good at leaving Sue" [05:03.31]She said "Harry you're right " [05:06.72] [05:14.83]Don't ask me if I made love to her [05:18.26]Or which one of us started to cry [05:21.32] [05:22.32]Don't ask me why she wouldn't take the money that I left [05:25.75]If I answered at all I'd lie [05:28.71] [05:38.52]So I thought about her as I sang that night [05:42.10]And how the circle keeps rolling around [05:44.97] [05:45.91]How I act as I'm facing the footlights [05:49.34]And how she's flying with both feet on the ground [05:52.83] [05:55.14]I guess it's a sequel to our story [05:58.88]From the journey 'tween heaven and hell [06:01.88] [06:03.07]With half the time thinking of what might have been [06:06.19] [06:06.81]And half thinkin' just as well [06:09.99] [06:12.12]I guess only time will tell