Foreign Window

<br>I saw you from a foreign window<br><br>Bearing down the sufferin road<br><br>You were carryin your burden<br><br>To the palace of the lord<br><br>To the palace of the lord<br><br><br><br>I spied you from a foreign window<br><br>When the lilacs were in bloom<br><br><br><br>And the sun shone through your window pane<br><br>To the place you kept your books<br><br>You were reading on your sofa<br><br>You were singin every prayer<br><br>That the masters had instilled in you<br><br>Since lord byron loved despair<br><br>In the palace of the lord<br><br>In the palace of the lord<br><br><br><br>Bridge:<br><br>And if you get it right this time<br><br>You dont have to come back again<br><br>And if you get it right this time<br><br>Theres no need to explain<br><br><br><br>I saw you from a foreign<br><br>Bearing down the sufferin road<br><br>You were carryin your burden<br><br>You were singing about rimbaud<br><br>I was going down to geneva<br><br>When the kingdom had been found<br><br>I was giving you protection<br><br>From the loneliness of the crowd<br><br>In the palace of the lord<br><br>In the palace of the lord<br><br><br><br>They were giving you religion<br><br>Breaking bread and drinking wine<br><br>And you laid out on the green hills<br><br>Just like when you were a child<br><br>I saw you from a foreign window<br><br>You were trying to find your way back home<br><br>You were carrying your defects<br><br>Sleeping on a pallet on the floor<br><br>In the palace of the lord<br><br>In the palace of the lord<br><br>In the palace of the lord<br><br>Etc etc...