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Harry Chapin( Harry Forster Chapin )
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Story Of A Life [Live]
Lyricist:Harry F. Chapin
I can see myself it's a golden sunrise Young boy open up your eyes It's supposed to be your day
Now off you go horizon bound And you won't stop until you've found Your own kind of way
And the wind will whip your tousled hair The sun, the rain, the sweet despair Great tales of love and strife Somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life
And all the towns that you walk through And all the people that you talk to Sing you their songs
And there are times you change your stride There are times you can't decide Still you go on
And then the young girls dance their gypsy tunes And share the secrets of the moon So soon you find a wife
And though she sees your dreams go poorly Still she joins your story of a life Story of a life, story of a life
So you settle down and the children come And you find a place that you come from Your wandering is done
And all your dreams of open spaces You find in your children's faces One by one
And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife
And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life
Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com So what do you do now? When she looks at you now? You know those same old jokes All the jesters tell You tell them to her now
And all the same old songs All the minstrels sang You sing 'em to her now But it don't matter anyhow 'Cause she knows by now
So every chance you take don't mean a thing What variations can you bring To this shopworn melody
And every year goes by like a tollin' bell It's battered merchandise you sell Not well, she can see
And though she's heard it all a thousand times Couched in your attempted rhymes She'll march to your drum and fife
But the question echoes up before me Where's the magic story of a life? Story of a life, story
Well, I've found sometimes words can serve me well Sometimes words can go to hell For all that they do
And for every dream that took me high There's been a dream that's passed me by I know it's so true
And I can see it clear out to the end And I'll whisper to her now again Because she shared my life
For more than all the ghosts of glory She makes up the story She's the only story Of my life
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