Harry Chapin Taxi Lyrics

Taxi Lyrics

It was raining hard in 'Frisco,
I needed one more fare to make my night.
A
lady up ahead waved to flag me down,
She got in at the light.
Oh, where
you going to, my lady blue,
It's a shame you ruined your gown in the
rain.
She just looked out the window, and said
"Sixteen Parkside
Lane".
Something about her was familiar
I could swear I'd seen her face
before,
But she said, "I'm sure you're mistaken"
And she didn't say
anything more.
It took a while, but she looked in the mirror,
And she
glanced at the license for my name.
A smile seemed to come to her
slowly,
It was a sad smile, just the same.
And she said, "How are you
Harry?"
I said, "How are you Sue?
Through the too many miles
and the
too little smiles
I still remember you."
It was somewhere in a fairy
tale,
I used to take her home in my car.
We learned about love in the
back of the Dodge,
The lesson hadn't gone too far.
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 to find the sky.
Oh, I've got something inside
me,
To drive a princess blind.
There's a wild man, wizard,
He's hiding
in me, illuminating my mind.
Oh, I've got something inside me,
Not what
my life's about,
Cause I've been letting my outside tide me,
Over 'till
my time, runs out.
Baby's so high that she's skying,
Yes she's flying,
afraid to fall.
I'll tell you why baby's crying,
Cause she's dying,
aren't we all.
There was not much more for us to talk about,
Whatever we
had once was gone.
So I turned my cab into the driveway,
Past the gate
and the fine trimmed lawns.
And she said we must get together,
But I knew
it'd never be arranged.
And she handed me twenty dollars,
For a two fifty
fare, she said
"Harry, keep the change."
Well another man might have been
angry,
And another man might have been hurt,
But another man never would
have let her go...
I stashed the bill in my shirt.
And she walked away in
silence,
It's strange, how you never know,
But we'd both gotten what we'd
asked for,
Such a long, long time ago.
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.