• From: Hendersonville, NC USA
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
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Topic: Stepping Through a Window

This song is about how our world seems have so much wrong with it, and to be heading in the wrong direction. It is also about how long ago, when I was much younger, I saw a world that seemed to be a pretty great place. If we could go back and change some of the things that went wrong we could fix this mess we are living in. 

Stepping Through a Window By Jeff Gilpin


March 19th, 2011


Capo I


Verse 1


[C]Stepping through a window


A [F]picture of the past


A [C]doorway to a place I lived


Where [G]life moved much less [F]fast


There’s a [C]meadow green and growing


The trees [F]coming to bloom


I’ll [C]travel to that time and place


I [G]swear I’m coming [F]soon




Chorus 1


Where the [Am]people all are honest


And the [F]world is safe again


[C]Simple life abounds there


I’ll go [G]back there and be[F]gin


The [Am]life I should be living


The world I [F]should be living in


If I [C]only fix what’s has been broken


[G]What would happen [F]then [C]




Verse  2


Oh to [C]right the wrongs that people


Have [F]made in days long gone


[C]Fix those alterations


[G]Erase all the [F]wrongs


Or just [C]live back in those simple times


Be[F]fore that life was gone


For[C]get about what’s wrong today


[G]Yesterday where I be[F]long





Chorus 2


Where the [Am]air smelled much sweeter


When the [F]wind blew much less strong


[C]People smiled in happiness


And [G]everyone be[F]longed


We’d go [Am]out to seek the sunshine


And [F]go home safe at night


[C]Dream about tomorrow


And [G]everything was [F]right [C]




Verse 3


I [C]wish I had that window


[F]But my shades are drawn


[C]Things I only dream about


Or [G]write out in a [F]song


We live [C]in the world we live in


No es[F]cape from the malaise


I’ll [C]try to be that window


And to [G]bring back better [F]days




Chorus 3


[Am]Bring back those feelings


That there’re [F]better days to come


[C]Get rid of the feeling that


There [G]is no place to [F]run


[Am]Invest in our future


But [F]not forget the past


[C]Maybe bring the good things back


[G]Maybe make them [F]last [C]





J  E  T  S
...and yet a Washington Commanders fan (unless they change their name again) ...long story...HTT...C

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  • From: Cornwall Ontario, Canada
  • Registered: 2006-06-01
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Re: Stepping Through a Window

Man that's a nice lyric!! any audio?
JV

  • From: Hendersonville, NC USA
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
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Re: Stepping Through a Window

Not at this time. I need to get my studio...err...basement back first. My daughter came back home and took over my recording studio.

J  E  T  S
...and yet a Washington Commanders fan (unless they change their name again) ...long story...HTT...C

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  • From: derbyshire
  • Registered: 2007-05-17
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Re: Stepping Through a Window

hi jeff i can remember those days when people said good mornig when you met,it did'nt matter if you did'nt know them and you never answered back to your parents or elders,respect is whats lacking now,great topic ,lovely lyrics.....stay cool

love is life ,life is for love,keep a true heart and live life to the full....stay cool

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  • From: Hendersonville, NC USA
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
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Re: Stepping Through a Window

Thanks Robert - Just missing those simple days of old. I see you are about to hit 400! You are a songwriting machine!

J  E  T  S
...and yet a Washington Commanders fan (unless they change their name again) ...long story...HTT...C

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