Windows and Walls

[Verse 1: Jules Shear]

You can't keep a love in with windows and walls

Even twelve rooms connected by marble floored halls

Can't keep a love in being scared it will cease

You can't see the big picture while you're staring at the crease

Play it in any language, it's an old loser's game

Wisdom comes in all different ways

But this ignorance is all the same

One wants to go, one tries to stall

You can't keep a love in with windows and walls

[Chorus: Jules Shear & Patty Griffin]

In the hour of the dead you walk the floor

Where the battle will be fought

You may not learn the lesson but the lesson will be taught

The silence will not comfort you

When you speak the words will tell

The breaking of a spell

[Verse 2: Patty Griffin]

You can't keep a love in with windows and walls

Build the beams higher, nothing is solved

There's locks on the window where the cats always curl

Through those locks you can't stop a wild and raging world

[Chorus: Jules Shear & Patty Griffin, Jules, Patty]

In the hour of the dead you walk the floor

Where the battle will be fought

You may not learn the lesson but the lesson will be taught

The silence will not comfort you

When you speak (when you speak) the words will tell

The breaking of a spell

[Verse 3: Jules Shear]

You used to want everything, now you want peace

If it can't be with him, then within you at least

When love learns to run before it can crawl

You can't keep a love in with windows and walls