C F

[Verse 1]
C
I was staring out the window
           F
The whole time he was talking to me
                 C
It was a filthy pane of glass
            F
I couldn't get a clear view
 C
And as he went on and on
                F                    Eb
It wasn't the outside world I could see
C                 Bb                       F
Just the filthy pane that I was looking through


[Chorus]
F                     E
So I had to break the window
F               E
It just had to be
F                        E
Better that I break the window
      Am     F     D
Than him or her or me


[Verse 2]
C
I was never focused on just one thing
    F
My eyes got fixed when my mind got so
 C
It may look like I'm concentrated on
    F          Eb
A very clear view
C
But I'm as good as asleep
   F               Eb
I bet you didn't know
C
It'd take a lot of it away
       F      Eb
If you do


[Chorus]
F                     E
I had to break the window
F              E
It just had to be
F                        E
Better that I break the window
      Am     F     D
Than him or her or me
F                     E
I had to break the window
F              E
It just had to be

It was in my way
 F                         E
Better that I break the window
         Am         F      D
Than forget what I had to say
    Am       F         D
Or miss what I should see


[Bridge]
 Dm
Because the fact being that

Whatever's in front of me
                      C
Is covering my view
Dm
So I can't see what I'm seeing in fact
                               F
I only see what I'm looking through

E   F   E  Am  E   D

[Verse 3]
C
So again I've done the right thing
        F
I was never worried about that
 C                        Am        Eb
The answer's always been in clear view
 C
But even when the window was cleaned
    F                      Am
I still can't see for the fact
Dm
That when it's clean
                       Bb                      Dm    G
It's so clear I can't tell what I'm looking through


[Chorus 3]
F                       E
So I had to break the window
F               E
It just had to be

It was in my way
 F                          E
Better that I break the window
     Am      F      D
Than him or her or me
F                   E
I had to break the window
 F             E
It just had to be

It was in my way
F                        E
Better that I break the window
      Am       F         D
Than miss what I should see
F                     E
I had to break the window
F              E
It just had to be

It was in my way
F                         E
Better that I break the window
       Am           F      D
Than forget what I had to say
     Am      F         D
Or miss what I should see
           Am    F     D
Or break him or her or me
              Am  F  D
Especially me