(Thank you John Irving for your beautiful line: ‘Keep passing the open windows’ which I borrowed furtively from your novel ‘The Hotel New Hampshire’)

You take the world upon your shoulders
And you find as you grow older it collapses
It collapses on you

And for all your golden words
Stifled cries will not be heard so you swallow
You always swallow the pain

Chorus:

But keep passing the open windows in your life
Just keep passing the open windows in your mind

Your voice conceals a tiny heart
Your eyes reveal the bitter part
Of all those long, long years
Of all those long, long years

Chorus

Bridge: Forever and ever, forever and ever