12 Harry Chapin Quotes on Time

Harry Chapin quotes on time

2. You see, dream-lover of a lady, what shakes me to the core Is the thought as you caress me, you've done this all before I think about the future with me out and others in Will I, too, have disappeared like I've never ever been?

20. 'I did not want to share her with the world or break the mood, So before she woke I went out and brought us both some food. I came back with my paper bag, to find out she was gone. She'd left a six word letter saying 'It's time that I moved on.''

22. My child arrived just the other day, He came to the world in the usual way. But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay. He learned to walk while I was away. And he was talking 'fore I knew it, and as he grew, He'd say, 'I'm gonna be like you, dad. You know I'm gonna be like you.'

23. 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.'

24. All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.

25. All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.

47. Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words, And all those potent voices, and the choices we had then, How I'd love to find we had that kind of choice again.

52. He ran under it with one last hope that he could add a prop And as he disappeared the rock came to a stop.

66. 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.'

71. And the look on her face as she opened the door Was like an old joke told by a friend. It'd taken ten more years but she'd found her smile And I watched the corners start to bend.

74. I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

76. When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar