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We Grew Up A Little Bit
We Grew Up A Little Bit
by Harry Chapin
We got married early And just a little bit late Baby came too early But some things just can't wait We were just beginning But it was very clear We grew up a little bit that year I caught on as a meter man You were caught at home When I started night school You ended up alone But you had another baby While I had my career And we grew up a little bit We grew up a little bit We grew up a little bit that year They put me in a office job A young man on the move We bought a house in Shaker Heights You supervised the move We were cashing checks, you were changing children While I played engineer And we were growing ever faster Every year I got bored of kilowatts You were tired of kids I started staying out at night And soon that's what you did At parties we'd go seperately You'd wiggle and I'd leer And we were growing faster We were growing ever faster We were growing ever faster every year You learned to live in silence I learned to live in lies And we both igored the empty spaces Growing in our eyes Your breath became a gin and tonic Mine became a beer And we grew up a little more last year Today at work they passed me by And promoted John instead I came home to find you'd wrecked the car I guess I lost my head Well, I can't believe I hit you But the rage came on so strong Ah, where did we go wrong? As you sit there crying I wonder who you are The partner-stranger-friend and foe Who's come with me this far We stand here in the ashes And I guess it is quite clear We did not really grow too much Each year So you say we're going nowhere Well I know that's where we've been Still I can't help wondering Can we begin again? I feel so full of questions Curiosity and fear But could we grow a little bit Could we grow a little bit Can we grow a little bit this year?
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"Oh, if a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world?" -- Harry Chapin, 1942-1981.
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The Latest Release
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Sniper & Other Love Songs
[iTunes]
In 1972, Harry released
Sniper & Other Love Songs.
Thirty years would pass before the album would ever reach the CD format. Sniper was finally re-released in June, 2002.
Originally given a working title of Sweet City Suite, the album tells the story of various characters one might run into in
a city. The album features the original studio versions of Chapin classics "A Better Place to Be" and "Circle." But
perhaps more importantly (as those songs are already well-distributed on compilation CDs), the album features seemingly
lost Chapin stories, including "And the Baby Never Cries," "Burning Herself," "Barefoot Boy," and "Woman Child."
Sniper is for the seasoned Chapin fan. New fans would do better to check out
Greatest Stories
Live. But for Chapin fans who have reached the level of the
Dance Band on the Titanic album, this is the next step. Slightly over-produced and having a little of the "forced"
feel that some of Harry's studio albums possess, this album does not capture the powerfully live Harry Chapin. Nonetheless,
it captures Harry's great iconoclastic songwriting--Harry takes the story song to new heights here. But the album works best
for those ready for it; don't buy it until you are ready to appreciate it!
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