Window Blow-Out

Window Blow-Out

1991, 06:00

For Voice and Six Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar and Drums

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Programme notes

Another number from “Art Songs”, this one borrows the title of an early piece by an artist named Gordon Matta-Clark, whose work has a hold on me unlike any other.

Lyrics

Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out.
Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. (2X)
Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

Window Blow-Out, Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out.
Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. (2X)
Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

Window Blow-Out, Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out.
Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. (2X)
Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

Window Blow-Out, Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out. (6X)

Sometime, its not enough to make it.
Sometime, its better, baby, to break it.
Sometime, its better to blow it out:
mark it out, cut it up, throw it out.

Somedays, its not enough to fake it.
This world, sometime you gotta shake it.
Put the piece on release, say a little mass,
take aim on the pane and spread a little glass.

Window Blow-Out (cont)

Why build up new buildings
when you got the old ones still around?
Who fucked up my skyline
with another high-rent high-rise?
Why build up new buildings
when you got the old ones still around?

What a sorry sight for my blood-shot eyes.
My blood-shot eyes (2X)

Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out.
Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

Somedays, its not enough to fake it.
This world, sometime you gotta shake it.
Don’t wanna hear no lecture on modern architecture.
Urban decay, well, its okay.
All that’s new ain’t fit to blueprint. (repeat ad lib)

Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

Window-Blow-Out, Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out (12X)

Window Blow-Out, Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.
Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out. Window Blow-Out.

(c)1991, SAPROPHONE MUSIC

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