Halfway To Heaven (LP版)-Harry Chapin

[ti:Halfway To Heaven (LP版)] [ar:Harry Chapin] [al:Verities And Balderdash] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.13]Halfway To Heaven (LP版) - Harry Chapin [00:01.34]Written by：Harry Chapin/Sandy Chapin [00:02.02] [00:12.39]There's no tick tock on your electric clock [00:17.70] [00:18.22]But still your life runs down [00:22.25] [00:24.54]There's no tick tock on your electric clock [00:29.90] [00:30.81]But still your life runs down [00:36.82] [00:49.52]I'm halfway to heaven and my home in Forest Hills [00:55.09] [00:55.76]It's halfpast eleven and I've got some time to kill [01:01.69] [01:02.56]I missed my bus connection my train got in too late [01:07.25] [01:08.13]And I'm forced into reflection by this half hour wait [01:13.64] [01:15.42]Now I have been a straight man [01:18.56]And I've played it by the rules [01:21.46]I been a good man a good husband [01:24.23] [01:24.94]Yes a good old fashioned fool [01:27.55]I have a fine wife and two children [01:30.68]Just like everybody's got [01:33.53]But after fifteen years of marriage [01:36.35] [01:37.02]The fires don't burn too hot [01:38.99] [01:42.73]You see someone's played a trick on me [01:45.65] [01:46.41]They set me up so perfectly [01:48.39] [01:49.36]The gave me their morality [01:51.65]And then changed the rules they set for me [01:54.58] [01:55.69]Someone must be laughing now [01:57.54] [01:58.51]Though it don't seem funny somehow [02:00.77] [02:01.68]How the world's accepting now [02:03.72] [02:04.67]What they once would not allow [02:07.04]Back in my younger days [02:09.20] [02:10.42]The world has changed [02:12.38] [02:13.55]In so many ways [02:15.45] [02:16.69]My mother once said to me [02:19.00] [02:19.91]So many years ago now [02:22.36] [02:23.62]Don't you touch those bad girls [02:25.98] [02:26.73]So I never had girls [02:29.16]Until I had my Mary when we married [02:33.63] [02:34.96]My Mary then had my two sons [02:38.24]My life as a lover it was already done [02:40.97]It was over before it had really begun [02:47.35] [02:50.13]You see someone played a trick on me [02:52.84] [02:53.71]They sent this little girl to me [02:55.79] [02:56.77]She is my new secretary [02:59.84]And she's something to see [03:01.27] [03:02.00]She's a nice girl [03:03.83] [03:04.93]But it's a young world [03:06.98] [03:08.48]And she lives her life so free [03:10.88] [03:11.47]And she sure gets thru to me [03:14.18] [03:23.72]She brings her pad into my office [03:26.06] [03:26.61]She wears a sweater and a skirt [03:28.82] [03:30.15]And somewhere deep inside of me [03:32.32] [03:33.26]Something starts to hurt [03:34.82] [03:35.46]She's wearing nothing underneath [03:37.92] [03:38.43]I can see what's there to see [03:40.69] [03:41.52]She smiles and says you wanted me [03:44.55]I'd have to agree [03:46.83] [03:50.47]You know how much I want her [03:52.47] [03:53.11]And I know that I could have her [03:55.37] [03:56.11]I know I could I know she would [03:58.67] [03:59.24]Make love to me [04:01.19] [04:02.72]So wonderfully [04:05.81]God d**n [04:07.32] [04:08.72]I'm one horny mixed up mixture of a man [04:13.93] [04:18.64]In my head all my life I've been a sinner [04:22.61] [04:24.58]And in my bed with just my wife I'm still a beginner [04:29.38] [04:30.44]But tomorrow night I'm taking [04:35.00]That little girl out to dinner [04:37.47] [04:39.30]No tick tock [04:40.69] [04:42.58]Electric clock [04:43.60] [04:45.85]Runs down [04:47.78] [04:49.52]No [04:49.95] [04:51.99]No tick tock [04:53.33] [04:55.02]Electric clock [04:56.19] [04:58.17]Runs down [05:00.34] [05:01.61]There's no tick tock on your electric clock [05:07.71]But still your life runs down [05:13.70]There's no no no no tick tock [05:17.52] [05:19.50]But still your life runs down [05:25.44]There's no no no no no tick tock [05:30.67]Your electric clock [05:32.66]But still your life runs down [05:37.62] [05:38.32]There's no no tick tock [05:41.59] [05:43.62]On your electric clock [05:47.60] [05:50.32]No [05:50.66] [05:52.45]No tick tock [05:53.71] [05:55.51]Electric clock [05:56.62] [05:58.45]Life runs down [06:00.17] [06:02.18]No [06:02.60] [06:04.47]No tick tock