Sing with me!

[BestIKenster]

There are those who think that life

Has nothing left to chance,

A host of holy horrors

To direct our aimless dance

 

A planet of playthings

We dance on the strings

Of powers we cannot perceive

"The stars aren't aligned -

Or the gods are malign"

Blame is better to give than receive.

 

 

You can choose a ready guide

In some celestial voice.

If you choose not to decide

You still have made a choice

You can choose from phantom fears

And kindness that can kill;

I will choose a path that's clear-

I will choose free will

 

 

There are those who think that

They were dealt a losing hand,

The cards were stacked against them-

They weren't born in Lotus-Land

All pre-ordained

A prisoner in chains

A victim of venomous fate

Kicked in the face

You can pray for a place

In heaven's unearthly estate

 

Each of us

A cell of awareness

Imperfect and incomplete

Genetic blends

With uncertain ends

On a fortune hunt

That's far too fleet...

 

 

[BestIKenster]

Well, I see you standin' there

With your finger in the air

Everything we do, you wanna leave it up to you

 

Who do you think you are?

You think you are a star?

Tryin' to run the town

Always tryin' to put us down

 

Well, you think that you're right

You think you're out of sight

Tell me something, mister

Why'd you have to make us so uptight?

 

Well, you say you've been tryin'

You know that you're lyin'

I think you need some groovin'

Who do you think you're foolin', now?

 

Well, you better start changin'

Your life needs rearrangin'

You better do some talkin'

Or you better do some walkin' now

 

Yeah, you think that you're right

You think you're out of sight

Tell me something, mister

Why'd you have to make us so uptight?

 

I know what you're doing

All that you been doin' wrong

I don't know what you're feelin'

Oh, but you been feelin' long

 

Well, you think that you're right

Tell me something, mister

Why'd you have to make us so uptight?

 

[BestIKenster]

You and I, we are strangers by one chromosome

Slave to the hormone, body and soul

In a struggle to be happy and free

Swimming in a primitive sea

 

You and I, we must dive below the surface

A world of red neon, and ultramarine

Shining bridges on the ocean floor

Reaching to the alien shore

 

For you and me - Sex is not a competition

For you and me - Sex is not a job description

For you and me - We agree

 

You and I, we are pressed into these solitudes

Color and culture, language and race

Just variations on a theme

Islands in a much larger stream

 

For you and me - Race is not a competition

For you and me - Race is not a definition

For you and me - We agree

 

Reaching for the alien shore

 

You and I, we reject these narrow attitudes

We add to each other, like a coral reef

Building bridges on the ocean floor

Reaching for the alien shore

 

For you and me - We hold these truths to be self-evident

For you and me - We'd elect each other president

For you and me - We might agree

But that's just us

 

Reaching for the alien shore

[BestIKenster]

I looked in the mirror today

My eyes just didn't seem so bright

I've lost a few more hairs

I think I'm going bald

I think I'm going bald

Seems like only yesterday

We would sit and talk of dreams all night

Dreams of youth

And simple truths

Now we're so involved

So involved with life

 

Walk down vanity fair

Memory lane everywhere

Wall Street shuffles there

Dressed in flowing hair

 

Once we loved the flowers

Now we ask the price of the land

Once we would take water

But now it must be wine

Now we've been

And now we've seen

What price peace of mind

Take a piece of my mind

 

My life is slipping away

I'm aging every day

But even when I'm grey

I'll still be grey my way

[BestIKenster]

Sick at heart and lonely,

Deep in dark despair

Thinking one thought only-

Where is she tell me where

And if she says to you

She don't love me

Just give her my message

Tell her of my plea

 

And I know if she had me back again

Well I would never make her sad

I've gotta heart full of soul

 

She's been gone such a long time

Longer than I can bear

But if she says she wants me

Tell her that I'll be there

And if she says to you

She don't love me

Just give her my message

Tell her of my plea.

 

[BestIKenster]

Things crawl in the darkness

That imagination spins

Needles at your nerve ends

Crawl like spiders on your skin

 

Pounding in your temples

And a surge of adrenaline

Every muscle tense-

To fence

The enemy within

 

I'm not giving in

To security under pressure

I'm not missing out

On the promise of adventure

I'm not giving up

On implausible dreams-

Experience to extremes-

Experience to extremes

 

Suspicious-looking stranger

Flashes you a dangerous grin

Shadows across your window-

Was it only trees in the wind?

 

Every breath a static charge-

A tongue that tastes like tin

Steely-eyed outside to hide the enemy within...

 

To you-is it movement or is it action?

It is contact or just reaction?

And you-revolution or just resistance?

Is it living, or just existence?

eah, you-it takes a little more persistence

To get up and go the distance...

 

[Lerxster]

Me and my brother were talking to each other

'Bout what makes a man a man

Was it brain or brawn, or the month you were born

We just couldn't understand

 

Our old man didn't like our appearance

He said that only women wear long hair

 

So me and my brother borrowed money from Mother

We knew what we had to do

We went downstairs, past the barber and gymnasium

And got our arms tattooed

 

Welcome to my life, tattoo

I'm a man now,

I expect I'll regret you

But the skin graft man won't get you

You'l be there when I die

Tattoo

 

My dad beat me 'cause mine said "Mother"

But my mother naturally liked it and beat my brother

'Cause his tattoo was of a lady in the nude

And my mother thought that was extremely rude

 

Welcome to my life, tattoo

We've a long time together, me and you

I expect I'll regret you

But the skin graft man won't get you

You'll be there when I die

Tattoo

 

Now I'm older, I'm tattooed all over

My wife is tattooed too

A rooty-toot-toot, rooty-tooty-toot-toot

Rooty-toot-toot tattoo too

To you

 

[Lerxster]

Dreamed I was an Eskimo

(Bop-bop ta-da-da bop-bop Ta-da-da)

Frozen wind began to blow

(Bop-bop ta-da-da bop-bop Ta-da-da)

Under my boots 'n around my toe

(Bop-bop ta-da-da bop-bop Ta-da-da)

Frost had bit the ground below

(Boop-boop aiee-ay-ah!)

Was a hundred degrees below zero

(Booh!)

(Bop-bop ta-da-da bop-bop Ta-da-da)

And my momma cried:

Boo-a-hoo hoo-ooo

And my momma cried:

Nanook-a, no no (no no . . . )

Nanook-a, no no (no no . . . )

Don't be a naughty Eskimo-wo-oh

(Bop-bop ta-da-da bop-bop Ta-da-da)

Save your money: don't go to the show

Well I turned around an' I said:

HO HO

(Booh!)

Well I turned around an' I said:

HO HO

(Booh!)

Well I turned around an' I said:

HO HO

An' the Northern Lites commenced t' glow

An' she said

(Bop-bop ta-da-da bop . . . )

With a tear in her eye:

WATCH OUT WHERE THE HUSKIES GO

AN' DON'T YOU EAT THAT YELLOW SNOW

WATCH OUT WHERE THE HUSKIES GO

AN' DON'T YOU EAT THAT YELLOW SNOW

[Lerxster]

Well right about that time, people,

A fur trapper

Who was strictly from commercial

(Strictly Commershil)

Had the unmedicated audacity to jump up from behind my igyaloo

(Peek-a-Boo Woo-ooo-ooo)

And he started in to whippin' on my favorite baby seal

With a lead-filled snow shoe . . .

I said:

With a lead

LEAD

Filled

LEAD-FILLED

A lead-filled snow shoe

SNOW SHOE

He said Peak-a-boo

PEEK-A-BOO

With a lead

LEAD

Filled

LEAD-FILLED

With a lead-filled snow shoe

SNOW SHOE

He said Peak-a-boo.

PEEK-A-BOO

He went right up side the head of my favorite baby seal

He went WHAP!

With a lead-filled snow shoe

An' he hit him on the nose 'n he hit him on the fin 'n he . . .

That got me just about as evil

As an Eskimo boy can be . . . so I bent down 'n I reached down 'n I scooped down

An' I gathered up a generous mitten full of the deadly . . .

YELLOW SNOW

The deadly Yellow Snow from right there where the huskies go

Whereupon I proceeded to take that mitten full

Of the deadly Yellow Snow Crystals

And rub it all into his beady little eyes

With a vigorous circular motion

Hitherto unknown to the people on this area,

But destined to take the place of THE MUD SHARK

In your mythology

Here it goes now . . .

THE CIRCULAR MOTION . . . (rub it) . . .

(Here Fido . . . Here Fido)

And then, in a fit of anger, I . . .

I pounced

And I pounced again

GREAT GOOGLY-MOOGLY

I jumped up 'n down on the chest of the . . .

I injured the fur trapper

Well, he was very upset, as you can understand

And rightly so

Because

The deadly Yellow Snow Crystals

Had deprived him of his sight

And he stood up

And he looked around

And he said:

I CAN'T SEE

(DO . . . DO DO-DO DO DO DO . . . YEAH!)

I CAN'T SEE

(DO . . . DO DO-DO DO DO DO . . . YEAH!)

OH WOE IS ME

(DO . . . DO DO-DO DO DO DO . . . YEAH!)

I CAN'T SEE

(DO . . . DO DO-DO DO DO DO . . . WELL!)

NO NO

I CAN'T SEE

NO . . . I . . .

He took a dog-doo sno-cone

An' stuffed it in my right eye

He took a dog-doo sno-cone

An' stuffed it in my other eye

An' the huskie wee-wee,

I mean the doggie wee-wee

Has blinded me

An' I can't see

Temporarily

Well the fur trapper

Stood there

With his arms outstretched

Across the frozen white wasteland

Trying to figure out what he's gonna do

About his deflicted eyes

And it was at that precise moment that he remembered

An ancient Eskimo legend

Wherein it is written

On whatever it is that they write it on up there

That if anything bad ever happens to your eyes

As a result of some sort of conflict

With anyone named Nanook

The only way you can get it fixed up

Is to go trudgin' across the tundra . . .

Mile after mile

Trudgin' across the tundra . . .

Right down to the parish of Saint Alfonzo . . .

 

[limlight81]

From the cradle bars

comes a beckoning voice

it sends you spinning

you have no choice......

 

You hear laughter

cracking through the walls

it sends you spinning

you have no choice

 

Following the footsteps

of a rag doll dance

we are entranced

Spellbound

 

And don't forget

when your elders forget

to say their prayers

take them by the legs

and throw them down the stairs

 

When you think

your toys have gone beserk

it's an illusion

you cannot shirk

you hear laughter

cracking through the walls

it sends you spinning

you have no choice

 

Following the footsteps

of a rag doll dance

we are entranced

Spellbound

 

 

[limlight81]

I've got you under my skin

I've got you deep in the heart of me

So deep in my heart, that you're really a part of me

I've got you under my skin.

 

I tried so not to give in I said to myself this affair never will go so well

About you why should I try to resist, when baby I know damn well

I've got you under my skin.

 

I'd sacrifice anything come what might

For the sake of having you near

In spite of a warning voice that comes in the night

And repeats, repeats in my ear

 

Don't you know you fool, you never can win

Use your mentality, wake up to reality,

But each time that I do, just the thought of you

Makes me stop before I begin,

Because I've got you under my skin

 

I would sacrifice anything come what might

for the sake of having you near

in spite of a warning voice

That comes in the night and repeats,

how it yells in my ear

 

Don't you know you fool, ain't no chance to win

Why not use your mentality,get up wake up to reality

and each time I do, just the thought of you

Makes me stop just before I begin

'Cause I've got you under my skin

and I like You under my skin..

 

[missionman]

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

 

absorbant and yellow and pourous is he

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

 

if nauticle nonsense be something you wish

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

 

then drop on the deck and flop like a fish

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

 

 

[limlight81]

yesterday i got so old

i felt like i could die

yesterday i got so old

it made me want to cry

go on go on

just walk away

go on go on

your choice is made

go on go on

and disappear

go on go on

away from here

 

and i know i was wrong

when i said it was true

that it couldn't be me and be her

inbetween without you

without you

 

yesterday i got so scared

i shivered like a child

yesterday away from you

it froze me deep inside

come back come back

don't walk away

come back come back

come back today

come back come back

why can't you see?

come back come back

come back to me

 

and i know i was wrong

when i said it was true

that it couldn't be me and be her

inbetween without you

without you

 

[Jaye]

Here's a little something for those of you with small children:

 

 

I know you'll never stay the same

In time most of us lose it

But I'm hoping just the same

You'll shine and learn how to use it

 

Speak to me like the very first speak

You are magnificent when you're innocent

Laugh to me like the very first laugh

You are from heaven sent when you're innocent

 

My hands hold you and you adore

Blue eyes turn my direction

Suprise in everything and your

Body moves in perfection

 

Smile to me like the very first smile

You are magnificen when you're innocent

Walk to me like the very first walk

You are from heaven sent when you're innocent

 

Sunrise here comes another day

Cow jumps over the moon now

Sometime you will look back and say

Today I'll sing my own tune

 

Sing to me like the very first sing

You are magnificent when you're innocent

Laugh to me like the very first laugh

You are omipotent when you're innocent

 

Speak to me like the very first speak

You are magnificent when you're innocent

Smile to me like the very first smile

You are from heaven sent when you're innocent

Sing to me like the very first sing

You are magnificent when you're innocent

 

[limlight81]

And now, the end is near;

And so I face the final curtain.

My friend, Ill say it clear,

Ill state my case, of which Im certain.

 

Ive lived a life thats full.

Ive traveled each and evry highway;

And more, much more than this,

I did it my way.

 

Regrets, Ive had a few;

But then again, too few to mention.

I did what I had to do

And saw it through without exemption.

 

I planned each charted course;

Each careful step along the byway,

But more, much more than this,

I did it my way.

 

Yes, there were times, Im sure you knew

When I bit off more than I could chew.

But through it all, when there was doubt,

I ate it up and spit it out.

I faced it all and I stood tall;

And did it my way.

 

Ive loved, Ive laughed and cried.

Ive had my fill; my share of losing.

And now, as tears subside,

I find it all so amusing.

 

To think I did all that;

And may I say - not in a shy way,

No, oh no not me,

I did it my way.

 

For what is a man, what has he got?

If not himself, then he has naught.

To say the things he truly feels;

And not the words of one who kneels.

The record shows I took the blows -

And did it my way!

[limlight81]

Hes a rebel and a runner

Hes a signal turning green

Hes a restless young romantic

Wants to run the big machine

 

Hes got a problem with his poisons

But you know hell find a cure

Hes cleaning up his systems

To keep his nature pure

 

Learning to match the beat of the old world man

Learning to catch the heat of the third world man

 

Hes got to make his own mistakes

And learn to mend the mess he makes

Hes old enough to know whats right

But young enough not to choose it

Hes noble enough to win the world

But weak enough to lose it ---

Hes a new world man...

 

Hes a radio receiver

Tuned to factories and farms

Hes a writer and arranger

And a young boy bearing arms

 

Hes got a problem with his power

With weapons on patrol

Hes got to walk a fine line

And keep his self-control

 

Trying to save the day for the old world man

Trying to pave the way for the third world man

 

Hes not concerned with yesterday

He knows constant change is here today

Hes noble enough to know whats right

But weak enough not to choose it

Hes wise enough to win the world

But fool enough to lose it ---

 

[limlight81]

I. tide pools

When the ebbing tide retreats

Along the rocky shoreline

It leaves a trail of tidal pools

In a short-lived galaxy

Each microcosmic planet

A complete society

 

A simple kind mirror

To reflect upon our own

All the busy little creatures

Chasing out their destinies

Living in their pools

They soon forget about the sea...

 

Wheels within wheels

In a spiral array

A pattern so grand

And complex

Time after time

We lose sight of the way

Our causes cant see

Their effects

 

Ii. hyperspace

A quantum leap forward

In time and in space

The universe learned to expand

 

The mess and the magic

Triumphant and tragic

A mechanized world, out of hand

 

Computerized clinic

For superior cynics

Who dance to a synthetic band

 

In their own image

Their world is fashioned ---

No wonder they dont understand

 

Wheels within wheels

In a spiral array

A pattern so grand

And complex

Time after time

We lose sight of the way

Our causes cant see

Their effects

 

Iii. permanent waves

Science, like nature

Must also be tamed

With a view towards its preservation

Given the same

State of integrity

It will surely serve us well

 

Art as expression ---

Not as market campaigns

Will still capture our imaginations

Given the same

State of integrity

It will surely help us along

 

The most endangered species ---

The honest man

Will still survive annihilation

Forming a world ---

State of integrity

Sensitive, open, and strong

 

Wave after wave

Will flow with the tide

And bury the world as it does

Tide after tide

Will flow and recede

Leaving life to go on

As it was...

[timintey]

Say your prayers little one

Dont forget, my son

To include everyone

 

Tuck you in, warm within

Keep you free from sin

Till the sandman he comes

 

Sleep with one eye open

Gripping your pillow tight

 

Exit light

Enter night

Take my hand

Off to never never land

 

Somethings wrong, shut the light

Heavy thoughts tonight

And they arent of snow white

 

Dreams of war, dreams of liars

Dreams of dragons fire

And of things that will bite

 

Sleep with one eye open

Gripping your pillow tight

 

Exit light

Enter night

Take my hand

Off to never never land

 

Now I lay me down to sleep

Pray the lord my soul to keep

If I die before I wake

Pray the lord my soul to take

 

Hush little baby, dont say a word

And never mind that noise you heard

Its just the beast under your bed,

In your closet, in your head

 

Exit light

Enter night

Grain of sand

 

Exit light

Enter night

Take my hand

Were off to never never land

[limlight81]

Big money goes around the world

Big money underground

Big money got a mighty voice

Big money make no sound

Big money pull a million strings

Big money hold the prize

Big money weave a mighty web

Big money draw the flies

 

Sometimes pushing people around

Sometimes pulling out the rug

Sometimes pushing all the buttons

Sometimes pulling out the plug

Its the power and the glory

Its a war in paradise

Its a cinderella story

On a tumble of the dice

 

Big money goes around the world

Big money take a cruise

Big money leave a mighty wake

Big money leave a bruise

Big money make a million dreams

Big money spin big deals

Big money make a mighty head

Big money spin big wheels

 

Sometimes building ivory towers

Sometimes knocking castles down

Sometimes building you a stairway --

Lock you underground

Its that old-time religion

Its the kingdom they would rule

Its the fool on television

Getting paid to play the fool

 

Big money goes around the world

Big money give and take

Big money done a power of good

Big money make mistakes

Big money got a heavy hand

Big money take control

Big money got a mean streak

Big money got no soul...

[limlight81]

Nights in white satin,

Never reaching the end,

Letters Ive written,

Never meaning to send.

 

Beauty Id always missed

With these eyes before,

Just what the truth is

I cant say anymore.

 

cause I love you,

Yes, I love you,

Oh, how, I love you.

 

Gazing at people,

Some hand in hand,

Just what Im going thru

They can understand.

 

Some try to tell me

Thoughts they cannot defend,

Just what you want to be

You will be in the end,

 

And I love you,

Yes, I love you,

Oh, how, I love you.

Oh, how, I love you.

 

Nights in white satin,

Never reaching the end,

Letters Ive written,

Never meaning to send.

 

Beauty Id always missed

With these eyes before,

Just what the truth is

I cant say anymore.

 

cause I love you,

Yes, I love you,

Oh, how, I love you.

Oh, how, I love you.

 

cause I love you,

Yes, I love you,

Oh, how, I love you.

Oh, how, I love you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breathe deep the gathering gloom

Watch lights fade from every room

Bedsitter people look back and lament

Another day's useless energy spent

 

Impassioned lovers wrestle as one

Lonely man cries for love and has none

New mother picks up and suckles her son

Senior citizens wish they were young

 

Cold hearted orb that rules the night

Removes the colours from our sight

Red is grey and yellow, white

But we decide which is right

And which is an illusion

 

[limlight81]

You saw me standing by the wall, corner of a main street

And the lights are flashing on your window sill

All alone aint much fun so youre looking for the thrill

And you know just what it takes and where to go.

 

Dont save a prayer for me now.

Save it til the morning after

No dont say a prayer for me now.

Save it til the morning after

 

Feel the breeze deep on the inside look down into the well

If you can youll see the world in all his fire

Take a chance (like all dreamers cant find another way.)

You dont have to dream it all, just live a day.

 

(chorus)

 

Save it til the morning after

Save it til the morning after

Save it til the morning after....

 

 

 

Pretty looking road I try to hold the rising floods that fill my skin

Dont ask me why Ill keep my promise Ill melt the ice

And you wanted to dance, so I asked you to dance

But fear is in your soul,

Some people call it a one night stand, but we can call it paradise

 

(chorus)

 

Save it til the morning after

Save it til the morning after

Save it til the morning after

Save it til the morning after

Do do do do do, do do do do do do do do

 

Save a prayer til the morning after...

Save a prayer til the morning after...

Save a prayer til the morning after,

Save a prayer til the morning after...

[Jen Sawyer]

Take a little dope

And walk out in the air,

The stars are all connected to the brain.

Find me a woman and lay down on the ground,

Her pleasure comes falling down like rain.

Get myself a car, I feel power as I fly,

Oh now I'm really in control.

It all looks fine to the naked eye,

But it don't really happen that way at all,

Don't happen that way at all.

 

You sign your own name and I sign mine,

They're both the same but we still get separate rooms.

You can cover up your guts but when you cover up your nuts,

You're admitting that there must be something wrong.

Press any button and milk and honey flows,

The world begins behind your neighbor's wall.

It all looks fine to the naked eye,

But it don't really happen that way at all,

Nah nah no, don't happen that way at all.

 

You hold the gun and I hold the wound,

And we stand looking in each other's eyes.

Both think we know what's right,

Both know we know what's wrong,

We tell ourselves so many, many, many lies.

We're not pawns in any game, we're not tools of bigger men,

There's only one who can really move us all.

It all looks fine to the naked eye,

But it don't really happen that way at all.

 

[BestIKenster]

I turn my back to the wind

To catch my breath,

Before I start off again.

Driven on,

Without a moment to spend

To pass an evening

With a drink and a friend

 

I let my skin get too thin

I'd like to pause,

No matter what I pretend

Like some pilgrim-

Who learns to transcend-

Learns to live

As if each step was the end

 

Time stand still-

I'm not looking back

But I want to look around me now

See more of the people

And the places that surround me now

 

Freeze this moment a little bit longer

Make each sensation a little bit stronger

Experience slips away...

 

I turn my face to the sun

Close my eyes.

Let my defences down-

All those wounds

That I can't get unwound

 

I let my past go too fast

No time to pause-

If I could slow it all down

Like some captain,

Whose ship runs aground-

I can wait until the tide comes around

 

Make each impression a little bit stronger

Freeze this motion a little bit longer

The innocence slips away...

 

Summer's going fast,

Nights growing colder

Children growing up-

Old friends growing older

Experience slips away...

 

[BestIKenster]

 

Now it's come to this

It's like we're back in the Dark Ages

From the Middle East to the Middle West

It's a world of superstition

 

Now it's come to this

Wide-eyed armies of the faithful

From the Middle East to the Middle West

Pray, and pass the ammunition

 

So many people think that way

You gotta watch what you say

To them and them, and others too

Who don't seem to see to things the way you do

 

We can only grow the way the wind blows

on a bare and weathered shore

We can only bow to the here and now

In our elemental war

 

We can only go the way the wind blows

We can only bow to the here and now

Or be broken down blow by blow

 

Now it's come to this

Hollow speeches of mass deception

From the Middle East to the Middle West

Like crusaders in a holy alliance

 

Now it's come to this

Like we're back in the dark ages

From the Middle East to the Middle West

It's a plague that resists our science

 

It seems to leave them partly blind

And they leave no child behind

While evil spirits haunt their sleep

While shepherds bless and count their sheep

 

Like the solitary pine

On a bare wind blasted shore

We can only grow the way the wind blows

 

 

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Basic elemental instinct to survive

Stirs the higher passions

Thrill to be alive

Alternating currents in a tidewater surge

Rational resistance to an unwise urge

 

anything can happen

 

From the point of conception

To the moment of Truth

At the point of surrender

To the burden of proof

 

From the point of ignition

To the final drive

The point of the journey is not to arrive

 

anything can happen

 

Basic temperamental filters on our eyes

Alter our perceptions

Lenses polarize

 

Alternating currents force a show of hands

Rational responses force a change of plans

 

anything can happen

 

From a point on the compass

To magnetic north

The point of the needle moving back and forth

 

From the point of entry-

Until the candle is burned

The point of departure is not to return

 

anything can happen

 

I set the wheels in motion

turn up all the machines

activate the programs

and run behind the scene

 

I set the clouds in motion

turn up light and sound

activate the window

and watch the world go 'round-

 

anything can happen