Window is a song inspired by an imaginary friend I had when I was a young child. I would sit in the living room looking out the window and I would make up stories. The song was written in 1980 and was first recorded in 1983.
lyrics
Outside it's raining; a permanent joviality
The streets glazed with moisture offer pathways for the blind
Though inside it's solace compared with that madness
The room starts to decay the deepest inner dreams
I look out my window - I stand on the table
I'm storing my anger to be let out all in one
It ensures me possibilities of breaking present fashions
And the norms that tail behind them
Leading on majority
How can this happen?
Do others not have a window?
Through which they can clearly view the doings on the street
For me it's plain to see that the panes on my window
Have been polished by the faces of pressed foreheads that leave a streak
I look out my window – I stare dumbly at nothing
Because nothing is what is out there and every one fights to meet it first
This retarded mentality consumes the individual
And leads them into thinking they'll be rewarded for their work
Over a number – a perforated paper
They tear the very life force straight out through your heart
They romanticize their losses and try you if you're different
They believe in bearing crosses only if the others wear the thorns
I look out my window – I see nothing new there
So I turn and leave the building and walk out to the street
I plan on making movements and stirring up the doldrums
Creating whole new fashions for people behind windows
credits
from Veil Scar,
released May 29, 2016
John Christian - electric guitar, vocals, bass, ARP 2600, Oberheim OBX, sampling, percussion, arrangements, and productions,
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