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It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.
Harry Chapin
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Harry Chapin
Age: 38 †
Born: 1942
Born: December 7
Died: 1981
Died: July 16
Banjoist
Film Director
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Brooklyn
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Harold Forster Chapin
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But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.
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And while blood's the only language that your deaf old ears can hear And still you will not answer with that message coming clear Does it mean there's no more ripples in your tired old glory stream And the buzzards own the carcass of your dream?
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She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.
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No straight lines make up my life And all my roads have bends There's no clear-cut beginnings And so far no dead-ends.
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Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.
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I want the fact that I existed to mean something.
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If we say that no one's out there And we say we're goin' nowhere And we avoid the question Is this all that it means?
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You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.
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You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took off for the sky. And here, she's acting happy, inside her handsome home. And me, I'm flying in my taxi, taking tips, and getting stoned. I go flying so high, when I'm stoned.
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I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.
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And I dream that something's coming And it's not just in the wind It's more than just tomorrow It's more than where we've been It offers me a promise It's telling me, begin!
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I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money.
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All my life's a circle Sunrise and sundown Moon rolls thru the nighttime Till the daybreak comes around.
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I come fresh from the street, fast on my feet, kind a lean and lazy not much meat on my bones, and a whole lot alone, and more than a little bit crazy. The old six string was all I had to keep my belly still, and for each full hour lesson I gave I got a crisp ten dollar bill.
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And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. When you coming home, dad? I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then.
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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.
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If you try to look But you don't touch Then you won't touch But you'll never feel And if you don't feel You'll never cry And if you don't cry Then you'll never heal.
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The reason I fight for the arts as well as against hunger is because the arts are the qualitative way, are the effective way, are the traditional way we learn to make value decisions about who and what we are.
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He was dancing to some music No one else had ever heard He'd speak in unknown languages She would translate every word And then when the world was laughing At his castles in the sky She'd hold him in her body Till he once again could fly.
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The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.
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