#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## # Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 17:33:01 EDT From: slehman@MIT.EDU (Scott A. Lehman) SHOOTING STAR - Harry Chapin covered by Pat Benatar from the "Harry Chapin Tribute" album Am he was crazy, of course G F from the first she must have known it G but she ***** went on with him G Am and never once had shown it Am she took him off the streets G F and she dried his tears of grieving G *************************** G Am she believed in his believing C Am G oh he was the sun burning bright and brittle and G Am she was the moon shining back his light a little F G he was a shooting star, she was softer and more slowly Am he could not make things possible F Am but she could make them holy - holy Am G well she gave him a daughter and she gave him a son G F she was a mother and a wife, and a lover when the day was done Am when he was too far gone for giving love G what he offered her instead Am was the knowledge she was the only thing F Am that was not in his head