Story Behind The Song

Written not long after 9/11, the night I heard George Harrison died. (There used to be a "here comes the sun" tag at the end, but it started feeling like overkill ...)

Song Description

How it feels when the city gets to be too much, and the drive you want to take to get away for a while.

Lyrics

here we are, in our first floor tiny apartment in the back
where we can never see the sun
staring out at just another stack of bricks
and they too, for someone else, must weigh a ton

there are times when i wish
i had never come to this God-forsaken place
and in my head, i plan our escape
and i see, yeah, the agreement in your face

well roll the windows open wide
in our car and speed up the side streets
til we make it cross the bridge
kiss a cloud and wave goodbye
shooting out across the plain
open roads for open minds
and open hearts, yeah rolling windows
open wide

all the images of these last couple months
have made it hard for us to talk about anything at all
more on edge, longer silences, shorter fuses
quick to snap, quick to judge, when what we need is to recall

rolling windows open wide ...

now it is true that we are here for a reason, each our own
some to accomplish, some to help, some just here to learn
but what if we never see what it is we're here to be
never spark, never catch, never burn

well roll the windows open wide ...

Playlist Creator	Playlist Name	Date Added
Nulty and Cory	My Top Songs	9/10/2007