Out There

Lyrics
Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone gazing at the people down below me. All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone hungry for histories they show me. All my life I memorize their faces, knowing them as they will know me. All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day, not above them, but part of them.

And out there, living in the sun gave me one day out there. All I ask is one to hold forever.

Out there where they all live unaware. What I'd give. What I'd dare just to live one day out there.

Out there, among the milers and the weavers and their wives through the roofs and gables I can see them. Every day they shout and scold and go about their lives, headless of the gift it is to be them. If I was in their skin, I'd treasure every instant.

Out there, strolling by the Seine tastes a morning out there. Like ordinary men who freely walk about there just one day and then I swear. I'll be content with my share, won't resent, won't despair, old and bent. I won't care. I'll have spent one day out there!