Looking from my window. Oh, but I can't get enough. So you tell yourself, that? So I can act like my whole life ain't going wrong. Thought I'd visit an old friend, another one in no man's land. I've got the lights turned up. I'm a Christian, a respected man, and a member of society".
This video shows Iona at Celtic Connections 2018 singing Away From My Window: Shirley Collins sang a quite different Go From My Window on her and her sister Dolly's 1970 album Love, Death & the Lady. Puppy on the porch and roses up the walk. When the lights go down.
Worked hard for every dime. To be with you, see me through. Reaching to eternity. Never knowing how it hurts. June Tabor recorded Go From My Window in 1997 for her CD Aleyn.
And some say that's exactly what they did. Eliza Carthy sings Go From My Window. Gone for now feels a lot like gone for good. High mountain, high mountain. The weather it is warm and'll never do you harm, The wind is blowing high and his ship is lying nigh, The wind and the rain have brought him back again, The devil's in the man that he cannot understand, My gaze turns to the outside. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. If I ever done you wrong, please forgive me. Always waiting for you song. I'm young, on the run, sleepless in the night. Trying to draw me near. One respected merchant, the other a military man, getting ready for pistols at dawn. Won't you smile for me baby and stay.
As the morning sun on a new day. Hear there's no sickness, toil or danger In that bright land to which I go. Ll never find it all. People wonder where you are. That's the way it goes - and the river flows.