Through the Window lyrics

Clouds have gathered turned to rain

Candle on your sill burned out

Weather on your face

Timed to match the mood outside

Reading the poems that you saved

They make the gloomy hours make sense

Or do they lose their power

With the yellowing of age

I saw you suffering

Through a foggy window in the rain

When you thought no one was watching, yeah

Going through your memories like so many prisons to escape

Become someone else

With another face

And another name

No more suffering

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 suffering

Through the cracked and dirty window pane

I was ashamed that I was watching

Going through your imagination

Looking for a life you could create

And become somebody else

With another face

And another name

No more suffering

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 packing without bags

Of old regrets and sorrows

Cuz 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 suffering

Through the yellow window of the train

With everybody watching, yeah

Too tired for imagining

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 suffering

• Artist:Chris Cornell
• Album:Higher Truth (2015)