| The Window Song | |
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Album |
Pawnshop Reverb |
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Released |
1992 |
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Artist |
the Mountain Goats |
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Length |
2:20 |
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Previous Track |
"The Day the Earth Burned" (Rock and Roll Gromets) |
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Next Track |
"Future Shock" (Shoeface) |
The Window Song is the eighteenth song on the compilation Pawnshop Reverb. It also appeared on the compilation Abridged Perversion. It was re-released on the compilation Protein Source of the Future...Now!. It appears as the eleventh song on the 2022 live album The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volume 5.
Lyrics[]
A knocking sound, it woke me up But my legs were feeling weak I stared up at the ceiling and I saw you at the window But my mouth wouldn't let me speak I know you You're the one I spent three seasons trying To pretend that I never knew Something pulled me off the bed And the same thing moved the muscles in my legs I moved toward your voice, and my body got so light I could've walked on eggs right then and not broken a one of them I know you You're the one I spent three seasons trying To pretend that I never knew I know you You're the one I spent three seasons trying To pretend that I never knew I know you You're the one I spent three seasons trying To pretend that I never knew I know you You're the one I spent three seasons trying To pretend that I never knew
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
- "The first song ever recorded with the Bright Mountain Choir. There are no known instruments capable of measuring how long ago this was." -- Protein Source of the Future...Now! liner notes
Things Referenced in this Song[]
Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]
- 1996-03-16 - Lintfabriek - Kontich, Belgium
- 2008-03-05 - Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA
- 2009-09-18 - Ithaca College - Ithaca, NY
- 2017-11-17 - Riviera Theatre - Chicago, IL
- 2019-08-16 - Music in the Mill - Hickory, NC
- 2022-08-25 - The Jordan Lake Sessions - Pittsboro, NC
- 2022-09-22 - The Orange Peel - Asheville, NC
| Protein Source of the Future...Now! |
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Track list: "Going to Tennessee" • "Pure Heat" • "Handball" • "The Window Song" • "Night of the Mules" • "Going to Malibu" • "Billy the Kid's Dream of the Magic Shoes" • "Fresh Berries for You" • "Alphabetizing" • "Third Snow Song" • "The Monkey Song" • "Love Cuts the Strings" • "Pure Honey" • "Duke Ellington" • "Seed Song" • "Quetzalcoatl Comes Through • "Omega Blaster" • "Coco-Yam Song" • "Alagemo" • "Two Thousand Seasons" • "Chinese Rifle Song" • "Yam, the King of Crops • "Alpha Omega" |
| The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volume 5 |
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| Track list: "Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light" • "First Blood" • "Mark On You" • "Minnesota" • "Make You Suffer" • "Choked Out" • "Tidal Wave" • "Torch Song" • "Tulsa Imperative" • "The Water Song" • "The Window Song" • "Abandoned Flesh" • "We Do It Different on the West Coast" • "Guys on Every Corner" • "Training Montage" • "Extraction Point" • "Damn These Vampires" • "Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome" • "Bleed Out" |