Up On The Shelf-Harry Chapin

[ti:Up On The Shelf] [ar:Harry Chapin] [al:Sequel] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Up On The Shelf - Harry Chapin [00:06.56]I used to play the trumpet once but now I play guitar [00:10.90] [00:12.21]Somebody told you it's more mellow [00:16.01] [00:16.76]Well I've played a lot of music since but I really haven't grown that far [00:22.69]Somebody said that you're just yellow [00:27.03]So I keep it up on the shelf [00:30.97]And it's funny how you keep it all to yourself [00:36.55]Hey honey could there ever be [00:39.29] [00:40.48]Should there ever be [00:41.97] [00:43.28]Could there ever be something else [00:47.27] [00:55.39]You know I used to swing my silver sword the dragons hit the ground [01:00.07] [01:01.62]Whatever happened to the maidens [01:04.91] [01:05.84]Well I'd swing my silver sword again and they would all fall down [01:10.60] [01:11.42]Would you leave them lying there where you had laid them [01:14.72] [01:16.28]And I used to have a country once where it's gone I do not know [01:22.30]Where do you think you might have lost it [01:25.80] [01:26.79]I used to raise the flag at dawn but that was very long ago [01:31.47] [01:32.59]Maybe you can find it where you tossed it [01:35.97] [01:36.65]Well I tossed it up on the shelf [01:40.27] [01:40.83]And it's funny how you've kept it all for yourself [01:45.45] [01:46.08]Hey honey could there ever be [01:48.95] [01:50.07]Should there ever be [01:52.14] [01:52.76]Could there ever be something else [01:56.75] [02:09.42]I used to say my prayers boys I used to sing the hymns [02:13.91] [02:15.03]Even the echo's disappearing [02:17.86] [02:19.67]They've broken the stained windows the cathedral's getting dim [02:23.97] [02:24.78]Then what is this dirge that we are hearing [02:29.09] [02:29.72]Well it comes from up on the shelf [02:33.15] [02:33.83]And it's funny how you sing it only for yourself [02:38.98]Hey honey could there ever be [02:41.53] [02:42.86]Should there ever be [02:44.73] [02:45.35]Could there ever be something else [02:49.85] [02:57.46]Well I used to have a lover once I used to have a friend [03:02.21] [03:03.70]How in the hell you ever find one [03:06.89] [03:08.01]My song is almost over now my story's at an end [03:12.25] [03:13.25]You lived yourself a good life but a blind one [03:17.06] [03:18.12]Well I've hidden there up on the shelf [03:22.36]And it's funny how you've kept it all for yourself [03:26.94] [03:27.57]Hey honey could there ever be [03:30.31] [03:31.50]Should there ever be [03:33.50] [03:34.18]Could there ever be something else