Lyrics Harry Chapin – We Grew Up A Little Bit

We got married early
And just a little bit late
Baby came too early
But some things just can’t wait

I caught on as a meter man
You were caught at home
When I started night school
You ended up alone
But you had another baby
While I had my career
And we grew up a little bit
We grew up a little bit
We grew up a little bit that year

They put me in a office job
A young man on the move
We bought a house in Shaker Heights
You supervised the move
We were cashing checks, you were changing children
While I played engineer
And we were growing ever faster
Every year

I got bored of kilowatts
You were tired of kids
I started staying out at night
And soon that’s what you did
At parties we’d go seperately
You’d wiggle and I’d leer

You learned to live in silence
I learned to live in lies
And we both igored the empty spaces
Growing in our eyes
Your breath became a gin and tonic
Mine became a beer
And we grew up a little more last year

Today at work they passed me by
And promoted John instead
I came home to find you’d wrecked the car
I guess I lost my head
Well, I can’t believe I hit you
But the rage came on so strong
Ah, where did we go wrong?

As you sit there crying
I wonder who you are
The partner-stranger-friend and foe
Who’s come with me this far
We stand here in the ashes
And I guess it is quite clear
We did not really grow too much
Each year

So you say we’re going nowhere
Well I know that’s where we’ve been
Still I can’t help wondering
Can we begin again?
I feel so full of questions
Curiosity and fear
But could we grow a little bit
Could we grow a little bit
Can we grow a little bit this year?