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Sequel Lyrics

Artist: Harry Chapin

So here she's actin' happy inside her handsome home
And me, I'm flyin' in my taxi, takin' tips and gettin' stoned.
I got into town a little early.
Had eight hours to kill before the show.
First I thought about heading up north of the bay
Then I knew where I had to go.
I thought about taking a limousine
Or at least a fancy car.
But I ended up taking a taxi
'Cause that's how I got this far.
You see, ten years ago it was the front seat
Drivin' stoned and feelin' no pain.
Now here I am straight and sittin' in the back
Hitting Sixteen Parkside Lane.
The driveway was the same as I remembered
And a butler came and answered the door.
He just shook his head when I asked for her
And said "She doesn't live here anymore."
But he offered to give me the address
That they were forwarding her letters to.
I just took it and returned to the cabbie
And said "I got one more fare for you."
And so we rolled back into the city
Up to a five store old brownstone
I rang the bell that had her name on the mailbox.
The buzzer said somebody's home.
And the look on her face as she opened the door
Was like an old joke told by a friend.
It'd taken ten more years but she'd found her smile
And I watched the corners start to bend.
And she said, "How are you Harry?
Haven't we played this scene before?"
I said "It's so good to see you, Sue
Had to play it out just once more."
Play it out just once more.
She said I've heard you flying high on my radio
I answered "It's not all it seems"
That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes
When we don't get to touch our dreams."
That's when I asked her where was that actress
She said "That was somebody else"
And then I asked her why she looked so happy now
She said "I finally like myself, at last I like myself."
So we talked all through that afternoon
Talking about where we'd been
We talked of the tiny difference
Between ending and starting to begin.
We talked because talking tells you things
Like what you really are thinking about.
But sometimes you can't find what you're feeling
Till all the word run out.
So I asked her to come to the concert.
She said "No, I work at night."
I said, "We've gotten too damn good at leaving, Sue"
She said, "Harry, you're right."
Don't ask me if I made love to her
Or which one of us started to cry
Don't ask me why she wouldn't take the money that I left
If I answered at all I'd lie.
So I thought about her as I sang that night
And how the circle keeps rolling around.
How I act as I'm facing the footlights
And how she's flying with both feet on the ground.
I guess it's a sequel to our story
From the journey 'tween heaven and hell
With half the time thinking of what might have been
and half thinkin' just as well.
I guess only time will tell.

Comments/Interpretations
by Jenny Abrams on 6/8/2008 6:52am I think this is such a nice song.
by Heather on 8/28/2008 8:46am The lyrics alone are good, I just wish the song didn't have such a harsh, rockness to it. Kinda wished that it was more like Taxi in instrumentation. Maybe it is just the version I know. Still good.
by paul on 9/7/2008 11:10pm I think the music underscores the irony, the twist of fate so to speak. In taxi, neither found themselves, they did not hold inner peace but rather saw its potential in times gone by, in sequel, the opposite holds, both found personal happiness (in their own right) and now rather than look backward they were now able to look forward see they were to never be. I think the music holds the discourse of each setting.
by Lindy on 11/6/2008 12:52pm Totally superfluous
by Andy on 11/14/2008 3:10pm As with all of Harry, I love it, but it does miss the power that Taxi has, both in lyrics and music.
by Brian on 12/2/2008 11:25am This song is personal to me. It reminds me of an old girlfriend. She broke up with me, and then she pursued me and I didn't want to have any part of it. Then I turned around - just in time for her to get engaged to someone else. Perhaps it was just as well. I miss you, Denise.
by Johnny on 12/11/2008 7:08pm Spectacular song by a spectacular lyricist...and to almost the same melody as Taxi.
by Bruce on 12/23/2008 9:15am Taxi and this really are masterpieces. After 30+ years, not sure what the meaning is, but great songs nonetheless
by Satuit Mike on 2/5/2009 9:15pm Timeless Tune, its too bad we lost this man so early.
by Shrinque on 3/30/2009 1:56pm Harry once said that he had lived all his songs, but not necessarily literally or physically. That is why it was so important he write this one. He need to provide himself and all of us with closure. Remember, he and his brother Tom always closed their concerts with "Circle" and he makes a quick reference to "Circle" in "Sequel." That lyric hit me like a ton of bricks the first time I heard it. And then there was the irony that Harry passed away so soon after this song and album came out. Yes, life is a circle. And note to Alanis Morissette: Harry's death soon after this song is true irony. Rain on one's wedding day is weather.
by Gary LAmbie on 8/21/2009 9:29pm I have sang Taxi for years at Karioke and did not know there was a sequel until my son surprised me with the CD. I now sing both of them. Harry Chapin was a great artist.
by Scott Burt on 10/8/2009 12:20pm I was fotunate enough to see Harry in a benefit solo performance in East Hampton, Long Island before he finished and recorded "Sequel". As far as I know, we were some of the first people to hear it. My wife and I liked Harry so much that we actually were getting reqady to go to Eisenhower Park when we heard the news that Harry was killed in a car accident on the way to that concert.

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