Taxi

	  		
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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.   
                                 
Bridge:  
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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.