Harry Chapin - Shooting Star lyrics

[Harry Chapin - Shooting Star lyrics]

He was crazy of course
From the first she must have known it
But still she went on with him
And she never once had shown it
And she took him off the street
And she dried his tears of grieving
She listened to his visions
She believed in his believing

Ah, he was the sun burning bright and brittle
And she was the moon shining
Back his light a little
He was a shooting star
She was softer and more slowly
He could not make things possible
But she could make them holy (Holy)

He was dancing to some music
No one else had ever heard
He'd speak in unknown languages
She would translate every word
And then when the world was laughing
At his castles in the sky
She'd hold him in her body
'Til he once again could fly

Ah, he was the sun burning bright and brittle
And she was the moon shining
Back his light a little
He was a shooting star
She was softer and more slowly
He could not make things possible
But she could make them holy (Holy)

Oh, she gave him a daughter
And she gave him a son
She was a mother and a wife
And a lover when the day was done
He was too far gone for giving love
What he offered in it's stead
Was the knowledge she was the only thing
That was not in his head

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