| There’s no tick tock on your electric clock
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| But still your life runs down
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| There’s no tick tock on your electric clock
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| But still your life runs down
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| I’m halfway to heaven and my home in Forest Hills
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| It’s halfpast eleven and I’ve got some time to kill
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| I missed my bus connection my train got in too late
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| And I’m forced into reflection by this half hour wait
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| Now I have been a straight man and I’ve played it by the rules
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| I been a good man, a good husband, a good old fashioned fool
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| I have a fine wife and two children just like everybody’s got
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| But after fifteen years of marriage the fires don’t burn too hot
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| Ahhhh someone played a trick on me
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| They set me up so perfectly
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| They Gave me their morality
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| And then changed the rules they set for me
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| Someone must be laughing now
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| Though it don’t seem funny somehow
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| How the world’s accepting now
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| What they once would not allow
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| Back in my younger days
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| The world has changed in so many ways
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| My mother once said to me so many years ago now
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| Don’t you touch those bad girls, so I never had girls
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| Until I had my Mary when we married
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| My Mary then had my two sons
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| My life as a lover was already done
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| It was over before it had really begun
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| Ahhhh someone played a trick on me
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| They sent this little girl to me
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| She is my new secretary
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| And she’s something to see
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| Yeah She’s a nice girl, but it’s a young world
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| And she lives her life so free, and she sure gets thru to me
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| She brings her pad into my office, she wears a sweater and a skirt
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| And somewhere deep inside of me something starts to hurt
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| She’s wearing nothing underneath, and I can see what’s there to see
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| She smiles and says, «You wanted me?» |
| I’d have to agree
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| You know how much I want her
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| And I know that I could have her
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| I know I could, I know she would
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| Make love to me, so wonderfully
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| God damn, I’m one crazy mixed up mixture of a man
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| In my head all my life I’ve been a sinner
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| And in my bed with just my wife I’m still a beginner
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| But tomorrow night I’m taking that little girl out to dinner!
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| There’s no tick tock on your electric clock
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| But still your life runs down |
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Halfway to Heaven, artist - Harry Chapin. Album song The Elektra Collection (1971-1978), in the genre