14) 3 Seats Away
and when she takes the bus,
it's to a different world that's brighter outside,
not grey... no, not like all of us.
And when she looks through the glass,
she's seeing something else,
and all of this cold, dull world
is just something slipping past.
(chorus)
I wish I could see it her way.
I remember the day when it almost happened.
Now I see grey in an endless array
stretching on for the rest of my life,
but she's just 3 seats away.
and when she takes the train,
although the rest of us are stuck in the rain,
right here, she's sitting in the clear,
and who's to say that she's not right,
and it's the rest of us who're blocking the light with our clouds?
Sometimes she sings out loud.
(chorus)
I said, "You ain't scared of nothing,
but all's not what it seems,
and unless you do something,
it all adds up to dreams."
and she said, "You're scared of everything,
so no matter what you do,
when you wake in the morning,
all your nightmares have come true."
and when she boards the plane,
it's rocket ship to some other world,
far away at the end of the rainbow,
but strapped to my electric chair,
even from my view, miles up in the air, I know,
it's another grey place where I go.
(chorus)
An early solo acoustic video of this song on YouTube
when the lyrics were a bit different
