Harry Chapin is a famous singer and humanist who was bored in New York. He composed many songs, such as 《Dance Band On The Titanic》、《On The Road To Kingdom Come》、《Sequel / I Finally Found It Sandy》、《America’s Least Wanted》、《Elektra / Asylum Fall 1973 Releases》and so on. I used to listening to his songs in my young age and these masterpieces left me very deep impression. I like his musical style and his emotion expressed in the songs.

“Taxi” is one of the most famous songs in his works and i think he probably expresses his hate to the fate and love. The story about this song is a tragedy of love. Harry was a taxi driver in the San Francisco. When he took a very beautiful lady who wears a blue dress in a rainy day, he recognised that this pretty lady was his first love Sue. Sue had a very familiar face and sad smile, which means her life wasn’t very happy. Because of the arrangement of fate, the reality let them  broke up and they both searched for total different dreams. Later, Sue recognised Harry as well from the reflectors of the car, they finally recognised each other. Harry said that he had already experienced very long distance and little smile, he still concerned about whether Sue was good or not. But the saddest thing is that the time flies and nothing can be changed. When they arrived at destination, Sue gave Harry 20 dollars and then walk to her home, which could’t give her happiness. After meeting with Sue, Harry drove away and he was singing on the way, he said that his dream is to receive freedom in the sky, but Sue wanted to be an actress. Now Sue is still acting that she is happy in a very big family, but himself is very happy to drive the car.

The story behinds this song is really very sad because two lovers meet in the future and they will never be together. Their total different dreams make them on different path. Life sometimes just so ridiculous and it can control many people’s fate and future. Based on Harry’s facial expression, i can not only see his hate towards the love story, but also contains much sadness and heartbroken. In conclusion, i love Harry’s songs because there are always many stories and emotions behind them.