I was lookin' through my window
I was lookin' through my eyes
And there's a big black car coming
Get off the street outside, come in

Go into a pipe dream
No one listens anyway
When I say I'm so sad about,
Not so glad about
I'm so mad, I can't sleep tonight

I was going through a nightmare
I was layin' on the line
And there's a big black train coming
D'you think it would be a shame running

Go into a bathroom
No one looking anyway
When I say I'm so sad about
Not so glad about
I'm so mad, I can't sleep tonight

I was lookin' through my window
I was lookin' through my eyes
And there's a big black cloud coming
Get off the street outside, come in

Go into a pipedream
No one listens anyway
When I say I'm so sad about
Not so glad about
I'm so mad, I can't sleep tonight


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    Could be miles off, but to me it's about running away from life's problems through drugs.

    IdleDreameron August 29, 2010   Link
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    gunna have to agree with idleDreamer. its prolly most likely about drugs, and id suggest heroin. only reason is because seeing as its hard to sleep on heroin. also he mentions : "and there's a big black train coming d'you think it would be a shame running go into bathroom no-one looking anyway" people call syringes trains, and he mentions going into a bathroom and that no ones looking. the final suggestion to why its a song prolly about heroin is i have heard that the song "there she goes" is about heroin

    LiberatingFranceon August 25, 2011   Link
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    Brilliant.

    shoegazinon August 13, 2005   Link
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    General Comment

    My favorite track on the album. I love the part near the end where it threatens to turn psychedelic with "tonight" repeated again and again slower and slower, but then just snaps right back into the rest of the song. For a second though it almost becomes the middle section of the Small Faces song "Lazy Sunday". Nice.

    enjoymywaffleson July 23, 2007   Link
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    brilliant

    pton November 14, 2007   Link

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