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Lyrics for Story of a Life by Harry Chapin:
| | | Artist: | Harry Chapin |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Story of a Life | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 84 | | | | Lyrics: | 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.
And 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.
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.
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.-acapo | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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