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It was raining hard in Frisco, I needed one more fare to make my night.
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A lady up ahead waved to flag me down and she got in at the light.
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Where are you going, my lady blue? It a shame you ruined your gown in the rain.
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She just looked out the window, she said sixteen Parkside Lane.
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Something about her was familiar; I could swear I seen that face before,
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But she said, I'm sure you mistaken, and she didn't say anything more.
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It took a while but she looked in the mirror and she glanced at the license for my name.
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A smile seemed to come to her slowly it was a sad smile just the same.
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And she said, how are you, Harry? I said, how are you, Sue?
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Through the too many miles and two little smiles I still remember you.
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It was somewhere in a fairy tale I used to drive her home in my car.
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We learned about love in the back of a Dodge lessons hadn't gone too far.
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You see, she was gonna be an actress, and I was gonna learn to fly.
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She took off to find the footlights, I took off to find the sky.
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I got something inside me to make a princess blind.
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There's a wild man wi - zard, he hiding in me, illuminating my mind.
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I got something inside me, not what my life's about,
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I been let - ting my outside tide me over till my time runs out.
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Baby's so high that she's skyin', yes she's flyin, afraid to fall.
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'll tell you why baby's cryin', 'cause she's dyin aren we all?
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There was not much more for us to talk about. Whatever we once had was gone,
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So I turned my cab into the driveway, past the gate and the fine trimmed lawn.
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And she said, we must get together, but I knew it never be arranged,
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So she handed me twenty dollars for a two-fifty fare and said, , Harry keep the change.'
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Well, another man might have been angry, and another man might have been hurt.
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But another man never would've let her go I stashed the bill in my shirt.
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And she walked away in silence strange how you never know,
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But we'd both gotten what we'd asked for such a long, long, time ago.
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You see, she was gonna be an actress, and I was gonna learn to fly.
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She took off to find the footlights, I took off to find the sky.
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And here, she's acting happy inside her handsome home,
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and me, I flying in my taxi, taking tips and getting stoned.
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I go flying so high when I stoned.
Written by Harry Chapin