Track 4 of the album Last Train Home · 2013
Window Across the Courtyard
by Moth Static
“I watched a stranger's yellow window for most of a winter. I never met them, and the song is the nearest I got to saying hello.”
dream pop · slowcore · bedroom pop · 4:00
Lyrics
There's a yellow window, third floor, left Someone else is up, not yet in bed I never learned their name or face Just a lamp that keeps its place We are strangers, you and I Sharing one small patch of sky I raise my cup, you raise a light Two quiet hearts awake tonight Goodnight, window, goodnight Keep your little yellow light I'll keep mine, you keep yours We're both awake behind our doors A curtain moves, a shadow's there Reading, maybe, in a chair I wonder if you wonder too Who's awake across the blue Goodnight, window, goodnight Keep your little yellow light I'll keep mine, you keep yours We're both awake behind our doors Maybe sleep will find us soon Under the pale and fading moon Till then we'll sit, a courtyard apart Two small lamps and two soft hearts Goodnight, window, goodnight Keep your little yellow light I'll keep mine, you keep yours We're both awake behind our doors Goodnight, window, goodnight Keep your little yellow light