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A Light in the Window - Words and Music by Carrie Newcomer
From the 2014 Album "A Permeable Life"
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©2014 Carrie Newcomer Music (BMI)

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FULL LYRICS:
Looking out at the night
Beyond the driver’s wheel,
Curving hips made of snow
In the winter fields.
There’s a house set way back
Where a lamplight glows,
Like star out in the cold,
Filled with people I'll never know,
Who left a light,
Left a light in the window.

What would I change if
The choice were mine?
I was doing the best
I knew at the time.
And every door that opened
And door that closed,
All the things that made me grow,
Sent me off down another road,
Off to search for a light,
For a light in the window.

Now what's old has already passed away
But the new is too new
to be born today.
So I'm throwing out seeds
On the winter snow,
As a sharp wind begins to blow,
Standing here on a new threshold,
I can see a light,
There's a light in the window.

The world is made of stone,
And the world is made of glass.
The world is made of light,
And its moving very fast.

We pass from mystery to mystery
So I won't lie
I don't what happens
When people die.
But I hope I see you walking slow,
Smiling wide as sunrise grows,
I drop my map with a
thousand folds,
In the distance I see it
glow,
I can see a light,
There’s a light in the
window.

Carrie Newcomer's music has always explored the intersection of the spiritual and the daily, the sacred and the ordinary. Over the course of her career she has become a prominent voice for progressive spirituality, social justice and interfaith dialogue. Her ability for sharp observation of the world lead the Dallas Morning News to rave, "She's the kind of artist whose music makes you stop, think and then say, 'that is so true.'" She has been described as "a soaring songstress" by Billboard, a "prairie mystic" by the Boston Globe and Rolling Stone has declared that Newcomer "asks all the right questions." Author Barbara Kingsolver wrote, "She's a poet, storyteller, snake-charmer, good neighbor, friend and lover, minister of the wide-eyed gospel of hope and grace."

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