revolving door
I know you won't disappoint
your windowed soul shows the world as clear
and I am a lonely child
no friends have I to join my games
but when the nameless faces glow in glass
they spin me round and dance and laugh
my mother says, my mother says, my mother says
I can leave in dreams
wasn't it her dream to live on park place?
my father says, my father says, my father says
ignorance is bliss
and smart success is his
and so I guess that's the case
thousands of people walk by me everyday
no one is happy above manhattan way
revolving door
the busy people go about their days
from box to box they race
the spin in their walls to a dizzying pace
so they will ride and ride a carousel
of broken hearts - oh, so it goes
and as I watch them turn, I wonder so
did their mothers say
their mothers say, their mothers say
they can't live in dreams
'cause they walk in waking sleep
through sun and through rain
do their fathers say
their fathers say, their fathers say
ignorance is bliss
'cause if there's joy they're ignoring it
so they think that's the same?
thousands of people walk by me everyday
no one is happy above manhattan way
I see they're glowing eyes
they're marching in a line
they're eyes are downward
but their lips are singing in time
we are not happy, we are not happy
we are not happy, we are not happy
we are not happy, we are not happy
we are not happy, we are not happy
I am just a child
I am just a child
I am just a child
I am just a child
revolving door
I know you won't disappoint
your windowed soul shows the world as clear
shows the world as clear