Windows and Walls

Lyrics

[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