INTRO: verse 1 There's a crowd outside peering through his window And he strains to hear the words the people say There's a crowd outside peering through his window And he wishes that the crowd would go away verse 2 He was happy, he was working one fine morning Then a friend waving a paper ran his way Now there's a crowd outside peering through his window And he wishes that the crowd would go away verse 3 He was just a Joe, a John, a Phil, a Michael An ordinary man with feet of clay Now every move he makes the camera follows And all he's ever done is on display verse 4 He'd never hurt a soul, he'd never argued He'd never dreamed his life could go astray Now there's a crowd outside peering through his window And he wishes that the crowd would go away VERSE 5 Friends he trusted once have turned their faces Now he sits alone there every day Ex-lovers have been paid for their confessions For photographs and lies and hearsay VERSE 6 He reads and reads and reads again the letters From strangers saying god comes if you pray But there's a crowd outside peering through his window And he wishes that the crowd would go away VERSE 7 The phone rings in the hall he does not answer They're beating on his door, he stands at bay There's a crowd outside, a stone comes through the window Now he knows the crowd will never go away