Harry Chapin - Halfway To Heaven Lyrics
There's no tick tock on your electric clockBut still your life runs down.I'm halfway to heaven and my home in Forest HillsIt's halfpast eleven and I've got some time to kill.I missed my bus connection 'cause my train got in too lateAnd I'm forced into reflection by this half hour wait.Now I have been a straight man and I've played it by the rulesI been a good man, a good husband, yes a good old fashioned fool.I have a fine wife and two children just like everybody's gotBut after fifteen years of marriage the fires don't burn too hot.You see someone's played a trick on me.They set me up so perfectlyGave me their moralityAnd then changed the rules they set for me.Someone must be laughing now,Though it don't seem funny somehow,How the world's accepting nowWhat they once would not allowBack in my younger days.The world has changed in so many ways.My mother once said to me so many years ago nowDon't you touch those bad girls, so I never had girlsUntil I met my Mary when we married.My Mary then had my two sonsMy life as a lover it was already doneIt was over before it had really begun.You see someone played a trick on me.They sent this little girl to me,She is my new secretaryAnd she's something to see.She's a nice girl, but it's a young worldAnd she lives her life so free, and she sure gets thru to meShe brings her pad into my office, she wears a sweater and a skirtAnd somewhere deep inside of me something starts to hurt.She's wearing nothing underneath, and I can see what's there to seeAnd she smiles and says, "You wanted me?" and Ic12
