Joy Williams - Front Porch Lyrics

Why am I crying??? Lol

Son of a bitch this is amazing

No matter what we put each other through l still love you and you are the one l can't live without, if you never find genuinely what you are looking for l will be waiting for you

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Beautiful. Just absolutely beautiful. The video, the song, the everything.

I wish the Civil wars were still together... but I love her voice

you're great talent! congratulations

Watching this again - and it's just so soothing to my soul. And gives me so many feels. It's a true gift to reach into someone else's soul with your music.

why am I seeing Anne with an E

I let this sweet music wash over my soul.

She still writing songs about Paul? 😩

Wow !! this is beautiful !!

Beautiful.

Geat song! Yeah!

Why on EARTH would you have a video that is so racistly charged??? We need to move FORWARD TO A MORE LOVING CARING SOCIETY, AS HUMANS!💜👍🌷

Duh. That was the whole point...

Oh ya let's just pretend slavery and segregation never happened 🤦‍♀️ Maybe the hurt will go away 🤦‍♀️ Lemme guess, you're white.

Why does the girl in this video look like and dressed like Wendy from Wendy’s?

I listen to Joy every single day. My 5 kids love her. She brings beauty into our home 💜❤

Beautiful. All of it. The young man in this is so handsome.

Is this a real movie??? Love this song

Tina Watrous I wish I wanna watch it so bad

Going to act like I never saw this video and enjoy the song as I thought it was about a lost family member dealing with alcoholism. That’s me I’m the alcoholic.

I get that. Music videos are always just one interpretation anyways.

I am looking forward to hearing these words communicated to me by one whom i love. LSB

Beautiful voice and song...

Now it's reversed. If you're white you pay double or your kicked out. Reverse racism.

Two loves that cant be together.
Mhm..
_I see you, Joy._ 👀

It reminds me of the storyline of “20 years”

Yep. Perceptive of you to see that. Apparently Joy's marriage has ended, fyi. She now describes herself as a single mother. She also admitted a while back in an interview that she and John Paul eventually did talk again, and have communicated from time to time. You can only go forward, it's true. The past is done. But there's always the future.

Lol. You made me laugh. Yes. Forbidden love. Separated by circumstances. Definitely a dog whistle song.

brazucas na área?

After that weird electronic album... she finally decided to goes back to the civil war sound...

Well, I was not expecting to like this song and the video so much! It was really beautiful

This might be one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard.

This encompasess love so perfectly.

I loved this song and video since the minute I’ve watched it. It’s so beautiful😍

i love the story, i love your voice, i love the melodies, i love all what i watching and listening. thank you so much for the MV it made me feel that i had just experienced something. maybe it is a moment i forget somewhere in my heart.

Broke my heart in less than a minute 🥺

Good video. Doesnt really match the meaning of the song though. Was a nice song. There wasnt a need to bring in a social Justice issue that hasnt been an issue for 40+ years. Maybe Your next video could be in support of Women being able to vote. Oh wait..Thats not an issue anymore either.

Honestly, I kind of agree. The video was very well done, but had nothing to do with the song and just seems like virtue signaling or something.

For a minute there I forgot why I put up with this messed up world. Now I remember.

I feel like John and Joy are singing to each other now. John go back to the front porch and say Joy's name through the screen door!

Great song and great recording...

Simply beautiful.

Oh my god this video, this song... 💔

Hard to fault the music, so we can pretty much be sure that 26 viewers are just fucking racist scum.

What a song. Makes my soul hurt.

I missed your voice singing with Hayley Williams ❤ If ever you two have time, please make another song together. ❤❤

Look, this is great. John Paul’s solo stuff is great too but nothing like the Civil Wars. That was rare magic.
Someday they need revisit that.

They won't. They've made it clear they're done working together.

yeah but it would be nice for joys comments to not be flooded by civil wars for a second and just appreciate her solo stuff, no matter how amazing the civil wars was and always will be. she has a lovely voice and nothing will take that away <3 not hating on you but lets focus on what she puts out right now, which is beautiful

@Andrea K. You're basically asking us to talk about Paul McCartney without mentioning The Beatles...

yes, but at least Joy is 'back home' with this kind of music; it's where her own magic shows and nothing can take this away even if it's not Civil Wars...

I love that woman

한 동안 그 가수는 집에서 푹 쉬어야 합니다 ! 나 중에 시간되면 다시 활동재개해도 쉽지가 않죠 ! 그리고 그 가수는 공개적으로 대국민 사과해야 합니다 ! 근데 지금은 저도 잘 몰라요 ! 우리나라 음악에 별관심 없어서 ㅠ ㅠ

저는 이렇게 알고있지만 , 확실하지 않지만 아무튼 담배피는 장면 나오면 19금 또는 선정적 포함되어 방송에는 못 나갈거에요 ! 그 가수는 공개적인 방송활동 접어야 합니다 !

우리나라는 뮤직비디오 담배피는 장면 나오면 심의 통과 못하고 뿐만 아니라 그 가수는 그 곡 활동을 못하죠 !

Loved you since Civil wars xx

So beautiful

bought it, love it (insert devil horns of awesomeness here)

Beautiful song and this video has me balling 🥺

Oh yeah, and this woman is from California...CALI-FUCKIN-FORNIA! Nothing says "country" like that shit state and all their illegal criminal coddling, pedophiles-visiting-your-children-in-school supporting, Marxist brainwashing. Nuff said. At least it explains her very non-country perspective on certain issues and undoubtedly her very non-country politics. This woman, Musgraves, Marin Morris, and God knows who ever else CMT promotes...Nashville, clean up your act. These people do NOT represent the culture that is "country".

You really don't know jackshit about Joy Williams, do you? She recorded Christian albums for the better part of a decade after leaving California and moving to Nashville.

She eventually switched to folk, not because of "Marxist brainwashing," or even a loss of faith (read her interviews-- she's still very much a Christian), but because right-wing music and thought is a creative straightjacket she couldn't deal with anymore.

There's a reason why virtually no artist of any real talent or ability signs on to the garbage views of the modern American far right. I'm afraid that if you're looking for a musical act that will properly "represent" the disturbingly-large part of America that endorses the nakedly racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-egalitarian, anti-union, anti-worker, anti-poor, etc etc views that make up the current Trump Party platform (which seems to be what you are using "country" as a sort of metonym for), you're liable to be looking for a good while.

this beautiful song deserve a million views and a billion love💛

I'm not crying. You are. Shut up. Dangit.

Race Mixing mega race mixing

Beautiful 😍

Beautiful feelings in my heart beating louder with each note.

I just love you, Joy. You make me feel the romance in life again (no, not that way). :-)

There are no wrong roads
And no window stays closed
And love is always sad when it fades
The glass is better stained anyways

If never you find what you're looking for
Come on back to the front porch
Say my name through the screen door
Come on back to the front porch
Whatever you've done, it doesn't matter
'Cause darling we're all a little splintered and battered
But the light is on, what you waiting for?
Come on back, come on back to the front porch

We carved a story in these boards
Watching life go back and forth
You take it all for granted, then you leave
And then it takes a while to realize what you need

If never you find what you're looking for
Come on back to the front porch
Say my name through the screen door
Come on back to the front porch
Whatever you've done, it doesn't matter
'Cause darling we're all a little splintered and battered
But the light is on, what you waiting for?
Come on back, come on back

I took the long way
Looking for the shortcut
To find out that this place
Was made of the best stuff

If never you find what you're looking for
Come on back to the front porch
Say my name through the screen door, oh
Come on back to the front porch
Whatever you've done, it doesn't matter
'Cause darling we're all a little splintered and battered
But the light is on, what you waiting for?
Come on back, come on back, oh
Come on back
Come on back to the front porch

Thanks! So nice to see it in print...Reads beautifully!

You just get better and better! This was so beautiful! Well done!

I've been sharing my love for "Front Porch" since the last day of rehearsal video Joy posted on Facebook back in February of last year. I can't explain it 100%, but it tugs at the heart strings I never knew existed...beautiful song, beautiful artist, beautiful lyrics, beautiful...everything.

They could have gave the Brother a haircut😂😂😂 very beautiful work

Love you Joy! Your voice is just incomparable! Your message always is sang with such compassion and pure realness ♥️

This made me teary eyed! Such a beautiful music video. A job definitely well done!!

Bonito!!

I love this song and video so much.

Magique ... merci pour cette sublime chanson

when you don't know what you're looking for it can be anyone, anywhere... xo

beautiful story and song! I want the movie now.

Found this song on Spotify. You are so damn good.♥️

Now this is a song ❤.

Pander pander pander...Joy Williams has a great voice but there isn't a drumstick large enough to make this video resonate. Why oh why does everything have to drip with identity politics? For your next video perhaps you can have a Hindu lesbian super ninja beating up the white christian heterosexual patriarchy? It would so move me!!!

@Anonymously Anonymous Why does your "beauty" have to be so ugly and mean? I guess haters have to hate...

I'm one who hates politics being pushed everywhere, but I don't see it here. This video is set in a different time—evident by the '55 Bel Air at the beginning of the video—when it was perfectly legal to discriminate against people (which, I believe should still be allowed, but that's a different conversation). So, that sets the tone of the video. These kids' parents don't approve of their relationship, and the girl's father is actively sabotaging it by not delivering his letters to her once he's gone away. That led her to believe that he no longer wanted to be with her, causing her to seek love from another man, who she in turn marries and has a child with. When her ex returns home an American hero, he returns to her front porch (the entire premise of the song), only to leave because he sees that she has a new life. Stop looking for reasons to be pissed off—you'll be much happier in life. As well, drop the stupid lines like "As a firearms enthusiast I do not get triggered I do the triggering;" they make us 2A guys look bad.

@Anthony Flores That is the funniest thing I have seen in the last minute, kid you not... I cannot tell you how impressed I am...

@Anthony Flores wait, you believe segregation should still be allowed?

@filmzen Yes, I do. The government shouldn't be allowed to tell a person in their own private business that they have to accept someone even if they don't want to. Let's say I'm a barber. If I don't want to cut a gay man's hair, I shouldn't have to. Likewise, if I'm not accepting of gays, he shouldn't _want_ to be in my shop, but should instead want to go somewhere that he's welcome. In other instances, I believe segregation should be mandated—like in schools. Boys and girls should not be learning together. Science shows that we are different and that we learn differently. To teach all children as if they are the same is doing them a disservice. Om ,pst cases. that disservice is to the boys, as they're taught that they're wrong for not doing things like the girls (when most teachers themselves are female).

Totally beautiful❤️

Beautiful song. Thank you

That was far better than i expected

Just broke my heart in a few minutes 😭

Love this beautiful song ❤️❤️❤️❤️

well... that is one successful music video.

💛💛

Yes Alex!!!!!!! Killing it 😍👏🏼

Very very sad

Hermoso video 😍😍😍

It’s love 🌷
Incredible work !!!

Such a beautiful voice...just miss the Civil Wars

But Joy is thriving as a solo artist

I wish the Civil Wars would come back together...what rare talent😍💖😥

Miss them too

​@Michelle Pearl John Paul is as well. Their voices just did a dance like only theirs could. I'll miss their harmony for the rest of my life.

Their voices were truly a marriage but also happy Joy came into her own power and nailing it!

So purely wonderful!

Love that Miles is apart of this 🙌🏼

AMAZING

No words can can explain how beautifully executed this was.

It was a complete joke. I was waiting for plug to ask for reparations.

This is beautiful!

Love it very much...