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Somebody Said
Somebody Said
by Harry Chapin
Somebody said...Where's the music goin' Somebody said...It's gone Somebody said...With this bad wind a blowin' Will the music keep a rolling on I had to ask myself WHy it's makin' me A minstrel man from cradle to grave Should there be somewhere else It could be takin' me As it rolls on over like a wave Somebody said...We got to find the words Got to, got to be an answer there Somebody said that...You never get heard 'Cause nobody really cares Do your feet just dance Where the waves begin Stop thinkin' as you're sinkin' below Or do you take this chance to sail on the wind When so many in the water chose to row Some may curse the crippled Some try to hide the hurt Some they hate the hungry But who's dying down there in the dirt Somebody said...Has the man enlightened us Somebody said...Who knows And then the little boys said...Well I may be frightened But the Emperor has got no clothes As the passion dies But the beat goes on The conductor got us singing his song He's been feedin' these lies That we've been feasting upon But now we've been at the banquet too long Somebody said...Where are the dreamers Somebody said...Dead Somebody said...Here comes the holy rollers Tryin' to sell us all the screamers instead Since we were once deceived When we received the call Now the cynics are the prophets of the day And now the weak ones grieve As the strong ones fall And the rest of us have nothing to say Some suffer in silent sadness Some come to worship pain Some just welcome madness But you can't come in from the rain Somebody said Somebody said
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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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