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Song For Black Windows
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Written: 1987 Recorded: June 26, 2000 Mastered: July, 2006 Originally appeared on: Shades of Grey (1987)
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Conceived and reared in New York, domesticated in Southern California. Physician, musician, husband, father and generalized procrastinator, not necessarily in t
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
Peak #1,298
Peak in subgenre #343
Author
Michael Novick
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August 05, 2006
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MP3 4.1 MB • 128 kbps • 4:31
Story behind the song
When I first heard Suzanne Vega’s Solitude Standing in the summer of 1987, I was awed into a summer-long songwriting paralysis. When I started writing again later that year, Song For Black Windows was the first to arrive. Frankly, I think it borders on plagiarism. I call it an homage, but either way, she sent me a signed postcard when I mailed her a cassette of my original recording. Weird song, if you ask me.
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if i could see through your windows i could know all i would ever need to know but that wouldn't be true to the game we play some things are not supposed to show this is a song for black windows i don't want the neighbors looking in this is a song for black windows sometimes we're beaten from within if i could open up your windows i'd have the power to concede but i'd lose the innocence in your eyes forever surrendering to greed this is a song for black windows i don't want the neighbors looking in this is a song for black windows sometimes we're beaten from within if you could open up my windows i'd pull the shades before your eyes but still the light would through to where my real lover lies this is a song for black windows i don't want your neighbors looking in this is a song for black windows there's nothing covering the sin
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