Window Seat Lyrics - John Wesley Harding

I was bought on by my mother as her carry-on 

She had me in the toilet when the seat-belt sign was on 

I crawled up to the captain down the other end 

I hid under the seats that's where I played pretend 

And I ate the wild pretzel and the nuts that fell 

And the screech of brakes was all I knew for my schoolbell 

And I know I've got the whole world at my feet 

In my window seat 

I learned to eat the sweet, I learned to swallow hard 

I learned to ease the pressure with free playing cards 

Spent my teenage setting off all of the smoke alarms 

Then running down the alley saying "please stay calm" 

Met the girl in 7b, we tried to settle down 

But we couldn't reach the aisle before we hit the ground 

And I know I've got the whole world at my feet 

In my window seat 

And now the sisters of the sky think I'm deaf and dumb 

As I wait around for upgrades that will never come 

But I know that we will one day sit on his right hand 

Be his automatic pilot when this plane must land 

And the stewardess of babylon will spread her arms 

And show us all a thing or two about her charms 

We'll be tempted by the devil with the magic wand 

He'll make us stand with arms outstretched then wave us on 

Into the great beyond (our boarding passes gone) 

And I know I've got the whole world at my feet 

In my window seat