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Front Row Seat

from Eternity Resumes by Larry Gallagher

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lyrics

The view from the top and from below
Can’t get much starker, can it?
We might as well be gazing out
At separate planets
When the curtains rise
And you open your eyes
On this earthly existence
Orchestra or balcony
Can make a world of difference
As for the stunning spectacle
Lighting up the sky
No one has a better view
Than you or I

No second class
No backstage pass
It’s the same for everyone
In our gravity boots
And our birthday suits
With our front row seats on the sun

In every town
With heads bowed down
The same distressing scene
Microscopic dramas
On tiny little screens
So taken with the lights we are
So flattered by its charms
We hardly bother looking past the
Ends of our arms
But out beyond the atmosphere
A bigger picture beckons
Aligned to blow your mind
In nanoseconds

The night’s sublime
It might be time
To exit the cocoon
As you scan the skies
with your jelly eyes
from your front row seat on the moon

Hurtling in a convertible
Doing donuts around the sun
Through meteor showers
At 60,000 miles an hour
How could this not be fun?
Riding the rubble
A rock in a bubble
Surfing on surface tension
Set your soul on cruise control
And gaze into another dimension

Far from here
Giant spheres of hydrogen implode
And out across the vacuum
Streams of photons float
Day and night
At the speed of light
It took them years to get you
Where they await
No greater fate
Than to dance across your retina
The clouds are gone
The curtains drawn
Are you ready for your screening?
You and the milky way
With nothing intervening

There is that chance
A wayward glance
Reminds you where you are
As you face the maw
With slackened jaw
From your front row seat on the stars

credits

from Eternity Resumes, released November 1, 2018
ljg- guitars, vocals
Michael Burns – drums
Daniel Fabricant – acoustic bass
Patrick Cress – baritone sax, bass clarinet
Kieran Quinn - keyboards
Marty McGinn – additional keyboard programming
mixed by Paul Scriver

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Larry Gallagher Sligo, Ireland

Larry Gallagher is a man of many interests, skills, and guitars.

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