[Intro]
[Instrumental: Acoustic Guitar, Loose Bass Groove, Light Percussion, Harmonica]
[Spoken Vocal]
Opened it wide
(And climbed outside)
[Verse 1]
The glass was just a boundary
(A picture in a frame)
But something in the distance
(Would never look the same)
So I moved a little closer
(Then closer still again)
Until the line between inside
(Began to bend and thin)
[Pre-Chorus]
Not above
(Not below)
But through the place
(You didn’t know)
[Chorus]
I climbed out
(My window)
Found out about
(The downlow)
What was hidden in the angles
(And the undertow)
I climbed out
(My window)
[Refrain]
I climbed down
(Down, down)
To look around
I climbed down
(Down, down, down)
… and found….
The world was not as still
(As it would sound)
[Verse 2]
The wind was not a whisper
It was a moving tide
The patterns in the streetlights
(Were shifting side to side)
What looked like simple distance
(Was layers underneath)
And every step revealed
(A deeper kind of reach)
[Pre-Chorus]
Not a view
(Not a scan)
But the texture
(Understand)
[Chorus]
I climbed out
(My window)
Found out about
(The downlow)
What I thought was observation
(Turned into the flow)
I climbed out
(My window)
[Bridge]
[Instrumental Break]
[Harmonica Solo]
[Percussion Build]
The world is not a painting
It is something to pass through
And a fixed perspective
Is only partially true
[Refrain]
I climbed down
(Down, down)
To look around
I climbed down
(Down, down, down)
… and found….
The edges weren’t edges
(Just lines that wore down)
[Final Chorus]
I climbed out
(My window)
Found out about
(The downlow)
What stays inside the frame
(Once you let go)
I climbed out
(My window)
[Outro]
[Acoustic Guitar Fade]
What I saw from inside
Was never quite the same
As what I found
When I stepped beyond the frame
Climbed through…
(Coming, too?)
[Silence]
From the album “Out Your Window“