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It was raining hard in Frisco
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I needed one more fare to make my night
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A lady up ahead waved to flag me down
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She got in at the light
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Where you going to my Lady Blue
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It’s a shame you ruined your gown in the rain
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She just looked out the window
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She said, "16 Parkside Lane."
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Something about her was familiar
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I could swear I seen her face before
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But she said, "I’m sure you’re mistaken."
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And she didn’t say anything more.
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It, took a while but she looked in the mirror
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Then she glanced at the license for my name
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A smile seemed to come to her slowly.
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It was a sad smile just the same
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And she said, "How are you, Harry?"
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I said, "How are you, Sue?
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Through the too many miles and the too little smiles
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I still remember you."
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It was somewhere in a fairy tale
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I used to take her home in my car
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We learned about love in the back of a Dodge,
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The lesson hadn’t gone too far
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You see, she was gonna be an actress
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And I was gonna learn to fly
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She took off to find the footlights,
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I took off to find the sky.
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Oh, I've got something inside me
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To drive the princess blind
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There’s a wild man wizard he’s hiding in me
D Em
Illuminating my mind
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I got something inside me
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Not what my life’s about
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’Cause I been letting my outside tide me
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Over ’til my time runs out.
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Baby’s so high that she’s skying
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Yeah she’s flying, but afraid to fall
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And I’ll tell you why Baby’s crying
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’Cause she’s dying, aren’t we all?
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There was not much more for us to talk about
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Whatever we had once was gone.
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So I turned the cab into the driveway
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Past the gate and the fine trimmed lawns
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And she said, "We must get together."
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But I knew it’d never be arranged.
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And she handed me twenty dollars for a two-fifty fare
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She said, "Harry, keep the change."
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Well another man might have been angry
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And another man might have been hurt
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But another man never would have let her go
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I stashed the bill in my shirt.
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And she walked away in silence
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It’s strange how you never know
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But we’d both gotten what we’d asked for
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Such a long, long time ago
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You see, she was gonna be an actress
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And I was gonna learn to fly
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She took off to find the footlights
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I took off to find the sky
G Em
And here she’s acting happy,
D Bm
Inside her handsome home
G D
And me I’m flying in my taxi
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Taking tips and getting stoned
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I go flying so high when I’m stoned