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Harry Chapin( Harry Forster Chapin )

A Better Place to Be

Lyricist:Harry F. Chapin

It was an early morning bar room
And the place just opened up
And the little man come in so fast and it
Started at his cups

And the broad who served the whiskey
She was a big old friendly girl
And tried to fight her empty nights
By smilin' at the world

And she said 'Hey Bub, It's been awhile
Since you been around
Where the hell you been hidin'?
And why you look so down ?

The little man just sat there like he'd never heard a sound
The waitress she gave out with a cough
Acting not the least put off
She spoke once again

She said, 'I don't want to bother you
Consider it's understood
I know I'm not no beauty queen
But I sure can listen good'

And the little man took his drink in his hand
And he raised it to his lips
He took a couple of sips
And he told that waitress this story

I am the midnight watchman down at Miller's Tool and Die
And I watch the metal rusting, I watch the time go by
A week ago at the Diner, I stopped to get a bite
And this here lovely lady she sat two seats from my right
And Lord, Lord, Lord
She was alright

You see, she was so damned beautiful she could warm a winter's frost
But she looked long past lonely, and well nigh kinda lost
Now I'm not much of a mover or a pick-em-up easy guy
But I decided to glide on over and give her one good try
And Lord, Lord, Lord
She was worth a try

And I was tongued-tied like a school boy
I stammered out some words
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It did not seem to matter much 'cause I don't think she heard
She just looked clear on through me to a space back in my head
And it shamed me into silence, as quietly she said

'If you want me to come with you that's all right with me
'Cause I know I'm going nowhere and anywhere's a better place to be
Anywhere's a better place to be'

When I drove her to my boarding house and I took her up to my room
And I went to turn on the only light to brighten up the gloom
But she said, 'Please leave the light off, oh, I don't mind the dark'
And as her clothes all tumbled 'round her, I could hear my heart


The moonlight shown upon her as she lay back in my bed
It was the kind of scene I only had imagined in my head
I just could not believe it, to think that she was real
And as I tried to tell her she said, 'I know just how you feel

And if you want to come here with me that's all right with me
'Cause I've been oh so lonely, lovin' someone is a better way to be
Anywhere's a better way to be'

When the morning came so swiftly I held her in my arms
She slept like a baby, snug and safe from harm
I did not want to share her or dare to break the mood
So before she woke I went out to buy us both some food
I came back with my paper bag to find that she was gone
She'd left a six word letter saying, 'It's time that I moved on'

You know the waitress took her bar rag
And she wiped it across her eyes
And as she spoke her voice came out as something like a sigh
She said, 'I wish that I was beautiful or that you were halfway blind
And I wish I weren't so goddamned fat, I wish that you were mine
And I wish that you'd come with me when I leave for home
For we both know all about emptiness and livin' all alone'

And the little man
Looked at the empty glass in his hand
And he smiled a crooked grin
He said, 'I guess I'm out of gin
And I know we both have been so lonely

And if you want me to come with you that's all right with me
'Cause I know I'm goin' nowhere and anywhere's a better place to be''





Harry Chapin( Harry Forster Chapin )
Miscellaneous 1
Album songs
1.Why Do Little Girls
2.Taxi
3.Sequel
4.My Old Lady
5.Story Of A Life [Live]
6.Jenny
7.Dance Band On the Titanic
8.I Miss America [Live]
9.Somebody Said
10.If You Want to Feel
11.Why Should People Stay The Same
12.Bluesman
13.Manhood
14.Dancin' Boy
15.Could You Put Your Light On, Please
16.Sometime, Somewhere Wife
17.Mercenaries [Live]
18.Odd Job Man
19.We Were Three
20.Mr. Tanner
21.I Want To Learn A Love Song [Live]
22.Mr. Tanner [Live]
23.Dirt Gets Under the Fingernails
24.'30,000 Pounds of Bananas'
25.What Made America Famous?
26.I Want to Learn a Love Song
27.Dreams Go By
28.Old Folkie [Live]
29.Mismatch [Live]
30.Fall in Love with Him
31.I Wanna Learn a Love Song
32.Roll Down the River
33.I Do It for You, Jane
34.Song for Myself
35.Halfway to Heaven
36.W*O*L*D* [Live]
37.And the Baby Never Cries
38.Burning Herself
39.Everybody's Lonely
40.Shooting Star
41.Country Dreams
42.Get On With It
43.Same Sad Singer
44.A Better Place to Be (Modify)
45.She Sings Songs Without Words
46.I Wonder What Would Happen to This World
47.Any Old Kind Of Day
48.Sequel [Live]
49.Star Tripper
50.Mail Order Annie
51.Cat's In The Cradle [Live]
52.Remember When The Music (Reprise)
53.Story of a Life
54.Stop Singing These Sad Songs
55.There Only Was One Choice
56.Pretzel Man
57.Greyhound
58.I Wonder What Happened to Him
59.Danceband On The Titanic
60.A Better Place
61.Remember When the Music
62.Six String Orchestra
63.Tangled Up Puppet
64.Babysitter
65.Shortest Story
66.Copper
67.The Rock
68.It Seems You Only Love Me When It Rains
69.On the Road to Kingdom Come
70.If My Mary Were Here
71.Caroline
72.Laugh Man
73.God Babe, You've Been Good For Me
74.Empty
75.Mercenaries
76.Changes
77.Short Stories
78.There's Alot of Lonely People Tonight
79.Someone Keeps Calling My Name