FAWM: "Something Out My Window"

Something Out My Window

2 weeks ago by @peteralway

Something Out My Window

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Liner Notes

Sometimes when the melody comes first, it's like the soundtrack for a non-existent movie. The challenge is to figure out what that movie is about.

#filk #Ukulele #fantasy #baritoneukulele

Lyrics

Something Out My Window
By Peter Alway, Feb 4-6 2025

Something’s pulling me something is calling me
I don’t know this new sound
Something’s pulling me something is calling me
I don’t know where I’m bound

Something’s drawing me out of my window
Up to the mountains and down to the sea
Something’s drawing me out of my window
Wonders to witness and creatures to be
Rising and falling it waxes and wanes
Burning in sunlight and rippling in rains
Something is calling me that much is true
Though I can hear it, it’s hidden from view

Something’s pulling me something is calling me
I don’t know what I’ll see
Something’s pulling me something is calling me
I don’t know what I’ll be

Over snowscapes and under the starlight
Swim through the air to the land of my dreams
Floating by on the whims of the blue night
Feeling the chill and the warmth of star beams
A score to a movie that no one has seen
Waiting to grow on my glass-beaded screen
Glowing with pulsating flickers and flares
Something impossible waits for me there

Something’s pulling me something is calling me
I don’t know how it goes
Something’s pulling me something is calling me
I don’t know how it grows

Something’s drawing me out of my window
Up to the mountains and down to the sea
Something’s drawing me out of my window
Wonders to witness and creatures to be

Comments

@janeg 1w

Utterly gorgeous! Your imaginative story-telling is better than any movie.

@dudachris 1w

Oh wow, this one is awesome too!! What beautiful journeys there are to be embarked on. ⛵

@quadrivium 1w

I can picture you as the court bard performing this in a human court after you visted faery. Like Phil I like the line "A score to a movie that no one has seen” but I like even more its subsequent line, "Waiting to grow on my glass-beaded screen."

@k8sikora 2w

I could picture this on a stage in a musical. Definitely something whimsical and fantastical.

@gmcgath 2w

I sometimes call that "instant movie, just add movie." What this movie will be is a mystery, and you make it one I'd want to follow.

@philkmills 2w

The words and the sound here make me think of someone living at the edge of faerie without knowing it...maybe.

I like the idea of, "A score to a movie that no one has seen." Long ago, I encountered a song called "Theme For an Imaginary Western" and was captivated by the title.