Harry Chapin: BETTER PLACE TO BE 81

now we're gonna get the bananas don't worry about it relax you got to get home to a babysitter some I don't plan on doing a lot more music and why won't we sit but a good concert is like a good date you build towards the climax you don't start out in bed so we're saving been at home for them you've always been a pragmatist John okay now this next song I always get in trouble when I don't do it's probably the most gentle signer written it's one of my favorites it's called a better place to be it wasn't her morning baru and the place just opened up and a little man came in so fast and it started at his cars and the brothers served the whiskey she was a big old friend the girl who tried to fight two empty nights by smiling at the world and she said hey Bob it's been a while since you've been around where they Haley even hide it why look sit down little man just sat there like it never heard a sound the waitress she gave out for the coffin acting not the least but all she spoke once again she said I don't want to bother you consider it's understood I know I'm not no beauty queen but I sure can listen good and the little man took his drink in his hand and he raised it to his lips he took a couple of sips and then eat all that waitress is stalled I am the mid night watchman daddy Phyllis do and I watch the metal rust and I watch the time go by a week ago at the diner I stopped to get a bite and this a lovely lady she said to see from my right she was alright you think she was thought she get mom by JLo well night under love I'm not what you before are a pickup a pisac guy but I decided to glide on over one good right oh she was worth the try but I was like a schoolboy stammer that's words it did not cuz I don't think look clear I'm through me to a space back in my head and it shamed me hear the silence spy bees you see if you want me to come with you that's alright with me cuz I know I'm going nowhere and anywheres a better place to be anywhere's a better place to be well I drove up to my boardinghouse and it took her up to the room and I went to turn on the only light to brighten up the glue but she said oh I don't mind the dark and as a close I'll jump around her I could hear my the moonlight shone upon her as she lay back in my bed it was the kind of seed I only had imagined in my head I just could not believe it think that she was real as I tried to tell her she said I know just how you feel and if you want to come here with me that's alright for me cuz I've been also lonely loving someone is a better way to be anywhere's a better place to be well the morning case and she's lived like a baby again safe now I did not want to share or dare to break the mood so before she walked I went out to buy us both some food I came back with a paper bag to find that she was gone she left a six word letter saying it's time that I moved on in all that waitress she took her bar a and she wiped it across her eyes and she spoke a voice came out as something like a sign she said I wish that I was beautiful all that you for half replied and a wish I was a goddamn fat I wish the new Am I fish that he got with me when I leave for home horrible so all about impedance and living all alone and the little man look at the end a glass in his hand that is and a cookie he said I guess I'm out of dip and we're all bad that's all right I'm going a better you

Channel: bearznorthCATHY

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Keywords: BETTER, PLACE, TO, BE, 81, harry, chapin

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Length: 10min 6sec (606 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 19 2010