1983
Hitting 16 Parkside Lane.
1984
The driveway was the same as I remembered,
1985
And a butler came and answered the door,
1986
He just shook his head when I asked for her,
1987
And said, “She doesn’t live here anymore.”
1988
But he offered to give me the address
1989
They were forwarding her letters to,
1990
I just took it and returned to the cabbie,
1991
And said, “I got one more fare for you.”
1992
And so we rolled back into the city,
1993
Up to a five storey old brownstone,
1994
I rang the bell that had her name on the mailbox.
1995
The buzzer said somebody’s home.
1996
And the look on her face as she opened the door
1997
Was like an old joke told by a friend.
1998
(What song y’all on?)
1999
“Sequel,” by Harry Chapin. It’s the sequel to “Taxi,” and provides a nice closure to the story. You can find the lyrics here:
Join in, Beck. And anybody else!
2000
It’d taken ten more years but she’d found her smile,
And only 998,000 to go!
2001
And I watched the corners start to bend.
2002
And she said, "How are you Harry?,