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Paint A Picture of Yourself (Michael)
Paint A Picture of Yourself (Michael)
by Harry Chapin
Well, I hear you are a painter now Though you're almost halfway through You pulled a pallet knife, you cut away a wife And you started something new But it was not the strife of married life That ordained what you would do A quick look back through your history Shows the same things goading you It's just like you to try painting Because you're color blind Each time you conquer something That's the time you change your mind And now your new preoccupations Give you your handicap to start Yes you're happiest when you're chasing clouds With a halfway broken heart Paint a picture of yourself Let the images flash past Don't weep on watercolors, Michael Make this moment last Paint the kid with restless eyes Yeah, the way you looked back then 'Cause the man keeps getting frightened When the boy's not born again I remember how you led us Back when we all were kids And that fact that you were older Made us copy what you did The day you bought that cheap guitar We all fell into line We got hooked on music But you drifted off in time So, I can see you at your easel Splay legged there you stand And your eyes are darting back and forth Brush flashing in your hand You're reaching always for that dream You need to make you real Leaning in a heavy wind That no one else can feel
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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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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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