The Window Song

The Window Song
Album	Pawnshop Reverb
Released	1992
Artist	the Mountain Goats
Length	2:20
Previous Track	"The Day the Earth Burned" (Rock and Roll Gromets)
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

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