Windows And Walls 02 | Dan Fogelberg

WINDOWS AND WALLS

RIAA Certified - Gold

Released January 1984 by Epic Records.

The Language Of Love

Windows And Walls

The Loving Cup

Tucson Arizona (Gazette)

Let Her Go

Sweet Magnolia (And The Traveling Salesman)

Believe In Me

Gone Too Far

Credits

The Language Of Love

Dan Fogelberg - electric lead and rhythm guitars, acoustic guitars, percussion, lead and background vocals

Joe Vitale - drums

Kenny Passarelli - bass

Mike Hanna - piano, organ

Joe Lala- cowbell, tambourine

Timothy B. Schmit - harmony

Windows And Walls

Dan Fogelberg - electric guitars, acoustic guitars, bass, piano, clock, lead and background vocals

Mike Hanna - keyboards, Roland Jupiter synthesizer, chimes, Prophet V synthesizer

Strings arranged by Dan Fogelberg and Mike Hanna

The Loving Cup

Dan Fogelberg - lead electric and rhythm guitars, acoustic guitars, lead and background vocals

Joe Vitale - drums

Kenny Passarelli - bass

Mike Hanna - piano, electric piano, Roland Jupiter synthesizer

Max Gromenthal - background vocals

Tucson Arizona (Gazette)

Dan Fogelberg - acoustic and classical guitars, lead electric guitars, bass, lead and background vocals, Roland Jupiter synthesizer

Russ Kunkel - drums, tape loop, castanets

Mike Hanna - piano, Roland Jupiter synthesizer

Joe Lala- congas, triangle

Gary and Katherine Burden; Charlie Fernandez; Dave Falkenberry - rhubarb

Strings arranged by Mike Hanna

Let Her Go

Dan Fogelberg - lead electric and rhythm guitars, tambourines, lead and background vocals

Russ Kunkel - drums

Norbert Putnam - bass

Mike Hanna - piano, electric piano

Sweet Magnolia (And The Traveling Salesman)

Dan Fogelberg - acoustic piano and vocal (recorded live at Caribou), electric piano, bass, background vocals

Russ Kunkel - drums

Timothy B. Schmit - background vocals

Tom Scott - clarinet

Believe In Me

Dan Fogelberg - acoustic guitars, high string guitar, bass, lead and background vocals

Mike Hanna - acoustic piano

Strings arranged by Glen Spreen

Gone Too Far

Dan Fogelberg - lead electric and rhythm guitars, piano, lead and background vocals

Jeff Porcaro- drums, tambourines

Mike Porcaro - bass

Mike Hanna - electric piano, Roland Jupiter synthesizer

Timothy B. Schmit - harmony

Produced by Dan Fogelberg with Marty Lewis for Full Moon Productions

Recorded at - Caribou Ranch, Nederland, CO; Sunset Sound, Hollywood; The Record Plant, Sausalito; Longview Farm, Brookfield, MA

Lyrics

The Language Of Love

She says no when she means yes

And what she wants you know that I can't guess

When we want more you know we ask for less

Such is the language of love

I say leave when I mean stay

But she don't see and so she moves away

What we really want you know we rarely say

Such is the language of love

It's tooth for tooth and eye for eye

We hide our hearts and then we won't say why

It's truth for truth and lie for lie

Such is the language of love

One cries foul and will not speak

The other claims a little victory

And all the time you know we fail to see

This is the language of love

(Chorus)

When a love begins to wander no one ever knows

But we feel it deep inside us

Long before it shows

We hem and haw, we balk and bluff

Our words don't ever seem to say enough

But a simple smile and tender touch

Speaks the true language of love

(Chorus)

She says no when she means yes

And what she wants you know that I can't guess

When we want more you know we ask for less

Such is the language of love

Windows And Walls

Up every morning long before day

Cooking her breakfast alone

She quietly dresses and pulls up the shade

And sits in the chair by the phone

But nobody ever comes by anymore

Nobody ever calls

Most days she sits and just stares

At the windows and walls

Windows and walls

Children all married, husband's passed on

Nothing but time on her hands

Most of her mornings are spent in her dreams

Or making her sad little plans

Maybe she'll go to the corner today

And pick up the new McCall's

If just to escape for an hour from her windows and walls

Windows and walls, windows and walls

The clock on the mantel chiming the hours

Must be the loneliest sound

She washes her dishes and waters her flowers

And afterwards has to sit down

Sometimes she still can remember a child

Playing with china dolls

Now all that she's left

Are these memories and windows and walls

Windows and walls

Windows and walls (day after day)....

The Loving Cup

So many try to capture love and so many never do

So many hearts are lost with never a clue

So many nights are passed in sorrow

So many days go by

So many lovers lose and never know why

(Chorus)

Still the lovers in the backseats claw

And still the wives wait up

Everybody's trying desperately to fill their loving cup

All through the night we thrust and parry

Letting our best sides show

Then in the morning light we lie and let go

Everyone searching for somebody

Someone to kiss and tell

More often than not our heavens turn into hell

(Chorus)

So many try to capture love and so many never do

So many hearts are lost with never a clue

Everyone searching for somebody

Someone to kiss and tell

More often than not our heavens turn into hell

(Repeat Chorus twice)

Tucson, Arizona (Gazette)

Tucson, Arizona rising in the heat like a mirage

Tony keeps his Chevy like a virgin locked in his garage

He brings it out at midnight and cruises down the empty boulevards

And he prowls the darkened alleys that snake between the city's thirsty yards

The lonely desert skies reflect the anger in his eyes and it is dawn

His father died of drinking and left five children sinking with his mom

His older brother Bobby never made it back from Viet Nam

With high school well behind him he lives at home and works this shitty job

And he thinks his '60 Chevy is the only true amigo that he's got

His heart is filled with sadness and his soul is like some ugly vacant lot

Mary Estelle Hanna came out from Louisiana for the sun

A deal gone bad in Dallas left her burned and broke and on the run

To make the rent and groceries she takes this job at $3.15 an hour

Serving shots of whiskey and tequila in some smoky red-neck bar

And she dreams some day she'll make her way to L.A. and become a movie star

Tony saw her working, he swallowed hard and asked her for a date

Mary laughed and answered "I would but every night I'm working late"

He said he had some cocaine that she could have if she'd just ride along

She said "What the hell, I may as well, I haven't had no fun in so damn long"

He picked her up at closing time they pulled out on the road and they were gone

Tony's mom got frantic when she found her son had not come home

Mary's roommate panicked and called the sheriff from a public phone

They asked her lots of questions

She tried her best to tell them what she saw

And late that night they found poor Mary lying in some narrow, dusty draw

The coroner reported that she hadn't been deceased for very long

Two weeks on they found it buried to the windshield in the sand

There inside lay Tony with a small revolver in his hand

The papers simply stated it must have been the drugs that drove him mad

The neighbors speculated what could make a good boy go so bad

Well, it might have been the desert heat

It might have been the home he never had

Let Her Go

Bad situation right from the start

She played me for a fool and she broke my heart

An infatuation, a hard loss to take

But we all must make our own mistakes

Let her go

I knew I had to let her go (oh,oh)

You know it wasn't easy

It was painfully slow

But I swear I finally let her go

All of those feelings were so long ago

I haven't felt a thing since I let her go

But you don't believe it

You still have your doubts

And while you do the tension mounts

Let her go

You know you got to let her go (oh,oh)

You know it's never easy

It's painfully slow

But you know you got to let her go

I will not deny it, I tried to hold on

But human hearts can only stay broke so long

I told you the truth, how much more can I do

And now my love it's up to you

Let her go

You know you got to let her go (oh,oh)

You know it's never easy

It's painfully slow

But you're gonna have to let her go

Let her go

You know you got to let her go (oh,oh)

You know it's never easy

It's got to be slow

But you know you got to got to, got to, got to, got to

Let her go, let her go

Sweet Magnolia (And The Traveling Salesman)

Two hearts throwing off sparks

Young and in love with our freedom

Moonlight, the soft southern nights

We were both ripe to fall

Well I was out on my own

Playing for all who would listen

And you were as free as a bird

Flying from nest to nest

But somewhere our eyes met

And our hands reached out

And we felt a kindred spirit

And as our faces touched

I could feel the fire

And needed so to just be near it

Oh lord, those moments we soared

Borne on the wings of our passion

It seemed then like they'd never end

But times like that always must

Cause then one day I flew far away from you

I never knew how I'd regret it

My sweet Magnolia belle you know I've loved you well

Even if I never said it

Magnolia, now I see that freedom isn't free

And love's the only true redeemer

And when this journey's through

I'll be coming back for you

If you'll have this foolish dreamer

I spend a night now and then passing through town on my travels

But someday I'm gonna come back to stay

Magnolia, I'm coming home

Believe In Me

If I could ever say it right and reach your hostage heart

Despite the doubts you harbor then you might come to believe in me

The life I lead is not the kind that gives a woman peace of mind

I only hope someday you'll find that you can believe in me

Those other loves that came before mean nothing to me anymore

But you can never be quite sure and will not believe in me

(Chorus)

Too many hearts have been broken failing to trust what they feel

But trust isn't something that's spoken

And love's never wrong when it's real

If I could only do one thing

Then I would try to write and sing a song

That ends your questioning and makes you believe in me

(Chorus)

And makes you believe in me

Oh, you can believe in me

Gone Too Far

World spinning out of control

The odds diminish every die we roll

But we are still in the game

If we should lose there's only us to blame

Or have we gone too far

Am I just wishing on a dying star

Oh tell me, have we gone too far

Look 'round you - what do you see

Six billion people where there's room for three

And so many mouths go unfed

Oh Father give us all our daily bread

Or have we gone too far

Are we just wishing on a dying star

Oh tell me, have we gone too far

Each year we find newer ways

To turn this planet into empty space

So close now to zero ground

We've got to find a way to turn it 'round

Or have we gone too far

Are we just living on a dying star

Oh tell me, have we gone too far

Or have we gone too far

Are we just wishing on a dying star

Oh tell me, have we gone too far