It
was raining hard in Frisco,
I needed one more fair to make my night.
A lady up ahead waved a flag me down,
she got in at the light.
Oh, where are you going to,
my lady blue
It's a shame you ruined
your gown in the rain
She just looked out the window,
she said, Sixteen Parkside
Lane
Something about her was familiar
I could swear I'd seen her face before
But she said, I'm sure you're mistaken
And she didn't say anything more
It took a while,
but she looked in the mirror
Then she glanced at the license for my name
A smile seemed to come to her slowly
It was a sad smile, just the same
And she said, how are you Harry?
I said, how are you Sue?
Through the too many miles
and the two little smiles
I still remember you
It was somewhere in a fairytale
I used to take her home in my car
We learned about love
in the back of a Dodge
The lesson hadn't come too far
You see, she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly
She took off to find the footlights
I took off to find the sky
Oh, I've got something inside me
To drive the princess blind
There's a wild man wizard,
he's hidin' in me
Illuminatin' my mind
Oh, I've got something inside me,
not what my life's about
Cause I've been letting my outside drive
me over till my time runs out
It is so wild and mysterious
Yes, it's wild and beautiful
I'll tell you why it is wild
There was not much more for
us to talk about
Whatever we had once was gone
So I turned my cab into the driveway,
past the gate and the fine -trim logs
And she said, we must get together,
but I knew it'd never be arranged
Then she handed me twenty dollars
for a two -fifty fare,
she said, Harry, keep the change
Well, another man might have been angry
And another man might have been hurt
But another man never would have let her go
I stashed the bill in my shirt
And she walked away in silence
It's strange how you never know
But we'd both gotten
what we'd asked for
Such a long, long time ago
You see, she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly
She took off to find the footlights
I took off for the sky
And here she's actin' happy
inside her handsome home
And me, I'm flyin' in my taxi
takin' tips and gettin' stoned
I go flyin' so high when I'm stoned