Through the Window

Clouds have gathered turned to rain

Candle on your sill burned out

Weather on your face

Timed to match the mood outside

Readin' the poems that you saved

They make the gloomy hours make sense

Or do they lose their power

With the yellowin' of age

I saw you sufferin'

Through a foggy window in the rain

When you thought no one was watchin', yeah

Goin' through your memories like so many prisons to escape

Become someone else with another face

And another name, no more sufferin'

You sold the best of yourself out

On a chain of gray and white light

One syllable at a time

You should have made them pay a higher price

I saw you sufferin'

Through the cracked and dirty window pane

I was ashamed that I was watchin', yeah

Goin' through your imagination

Lookin' for a life you could create

And become somebody else, yeah

With another face and another name

No more sufferin'

I wish that I could find a seed and plant a tree that grows so high

So that I could climb and harvest the ripe stars

For you and I to drink and spit the ashes from our mouthes

And put the gray back in the clouds

Send them packin' without bags

Of old regrets and sorrows

'Cause they don't do a thing but drag us down

So far down

The past is like a braided rope

Each moment tightly coiled inside

I saw you sufferin'

Through the yellow window of the train

With everybody watchin', yeah

Too tired for imaginin'

That you could ever love somebody else

Somewhere far away

From another time

And another place

With another life

And another face

And another name

And another name

No more sufferin'