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Life From a Window

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Looking from a hill top, watching from a lighthouse
Just dreaming
Up here I can see the world,
Ooh, sometimes it don't look nice - that's OK
Life from a window, I'm just taking in the view
Life from a window, observing everything around you
Staring at a gray sky, try to paint it blue,
teenage blue
Some people that you see around you, tell you how devoted they are
They tell you something on Sunday, but come Monday they've changed their minds
I'm looking from a skyscraper
I'm standing on the Post Office tower
So I can see - all there is to see

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planetearth On Apr 12, 2004

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by pd100

9y ago

Great song from a great album.

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