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SHOOTING STAR - Harry Chapin
covered by Pat Benatar
from the "Harry Chapin Tribute" album

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he was crazy, of course
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from the first she must have known it
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but she ***** went on with him
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and never once had shown it
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she took him off the streets
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and she dried his tears of grieving
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she believed in his believing

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oh he was the sun burning bright and brittle and
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she was the moon shining back his light a little
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he was a shooting star, she was softer and more slowly
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he could not make things possible
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but she could make them holy - holy

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well she gave him a daughter and she gave him a son
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she was a mother and a wife, and a lover when the day was done
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when he was too far gone for giving love
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what he offered her instead
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was the knowledge she was the only thing
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that was not in his head