Three Flights Up Lyrics

Song	Three Flights Up
Artist	Don McLean
Album	Tapestry
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	On the first floor…
	On the first floor…
	On the first floor there's a young girl reeling
	Her body's numb and without feeling
	As illusions dance on the midnight ceiling
	Now she's falling, now she's kneeling
	It's almost like she's bowed in prayer
	A savior she's about to bear
	She screams for help, but no one's there…
	On the first floor…
	On the first floor people walk the halls
	But none can hear her desperate calls
	There is no sound beyond the walls
	So to the telephone she crawls
	She telephones her only friend
	The one on whom she can depend
	But the phone rings on without an end
	Then rings no more…
	On the first floor…
	There's a party on the second floor
	And through the picture window you can see them all
	They're laughing and they're dancing
	Admiring the
	Renoir that's hanging on the wall
	But in the master bedroom where the coats are piled high
	A silent, saddened lady thinks of what it's like to die
	And as she dwells on all the years she still has left to face
	She wonders how she'll ever find someone to take his place
	Then suddenly she's jarred by the ringing of the phone
	Oh, why do you ring now, just when
	I want to be alone?
	So she walks into the bathroom and drinks some water from a cup
	But the telephone stops ringing just before she picks it up…
	My family was very poor
	So I worked hard to be secure
	I married one
	I had to wed
	And not the one
	I loved instead
	When I was young my blood ran wild
	But we stayed married for the child
	Now three flights up,
	I'm all alone
	My wife is dead, my child is grown
	My daughter leads a wayward life
	She's been a failure as a wife
	And though she lives just one floor down
	She never calls or comes around…
	Step off the platform and onto the train
	Look out your window and into the rain
	Watch all the buildings that pass as you ride
	And count all the stories that go on inside
	And then ask yourself if it must be this way
	Should walls and doors and plaster ceilings
	Separate us from each others' feelings?

	On the first floor
	On the first floor
	On the first floor there' s a young girl reeling
	Her body' s numb and without feeling
	As illusions dance on the midnight ceiling
	Now she' s falling, now she' s kneeling
	It' s almost like she' s bowed in prayer
	A savior she' s about to bear
	She screams for help, but no one' s there
	On the first floor
	On the first floor people walk the halls
	But none can hear her desperate calls
	There is no sound beyond the walls
	So to the telephone she crawls
	She telephones her only friend
	The one on whom she can depend
	But the phone rings on without an end
	Then rings no more
	On the first floor
	There' s a party on the second floor
	And through the picture window you can see them all
	They' re laughing and they' re dancing
	Admiring the
	Renoir that' s hanging on the wall
	But in the master bedroom where the coats are piled high
	A silent, saddened lady thinks of what it' s like to die
	And as she dwells on all the years she still has left to face
	She wonders how she' ll ever find someone to take his place
	Then suddenly she' s jarred by the ringing of the phone
	Oh, why do you ring now, just when
	I want to be alone?
	So she walks into the bathroom and drinks some water from a cup
	But the telephone stops ringing just before she picks it up
	My family was very poor
	So I worked hard to be secure
	I married one
	I had to wed
	And not the one
	I loved instead
	When I was young my blood ran wild
	But we stayed married for the child
	Now three flights up,
	I' m all alone
	My wife is dead, my child is grown
	My daughter leads a wayward life
	She' s been a failure as a wife
	And though she lives just one floor down
	She never calls or comes around
	Step off the platform and onto the train
	Look out your window and into the rain
	Watch all the buildings that pass as you ride
	And count all the stories that go on inside
	And then ask yourself if it must be this way
	Should walls and doors and plaster ceilings
	Separate us from each others' feelings?

	On the first floor
	On the first floor
	On the first floor there' s a young girl reeling
	Her body' s numb and without feeling
	As illusions dance on the midnight ceiling
	Now she' s falling, now she' s kneeling
	It' s almost like she' s bowed in prayer
	A savior she' s about to bear
	She screams for help, but no one' s there
	On the first floor
	On the first floor people walk the halls
	But none can hear her desperate calls
	There is no sound beyond the walls
	So to the telephone she crawls
	She telephones her only friend
	The one on whom she can depend
	But the phone rings on without an end
	Then rings no more
	On the first floor
	There' s a party on the second floor
	And through the picture window you can see them all
	They' re laughing and they' re dancing
	Admiring the
	Renoir that' s hanging on the wall
	But in the master bedroom where the coats are piled high
	A silent, saddened lady thinks of what it' s like to die
	And as she dwells on all the years she still has left to face
	She wonders how she' ll ever find someone to take his place
	Then suddenly she' s jarred by the ringing of the phone
	Oh, why do you ring now, just when
	I want to be alone?
	So she walks into the bathroom and drinks some water from a cup
	But the telephone stops ringing just before she picks it up
	My family was very poor
	So I worked hard to be secure
	I married one
	I had to wed
	And not the one
	I loved instead
	When I was young my blood ran wild
	But we stayed married for the child
	Now three flights up,
	I' m all alone
	My wife is dead, my child is grown
	My daughter leads a wayward life
	She' s been a failure as a wife
	And though she lives just one floor down
	She never calls or comes around
	Step off the platform and onto the train
	Look out your window and into the rain
	Watch all the buildings that pass as you ride
	And count all the stories that go on inside
	And then ask yourself if it must be this way
	Should walls and doors and plaster ceilings
	Separate us from each others' feelings?

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