Van Morrison - Foreign Window Lyrics

...diesmal nehme ich den ausgang !...du weisst was ich meine...

yip lol

@Cool Coyote Sorry, nicht böse sein, aber ich meinte nicht dich ;)

i know joking 🤣

@Cool Coyote okay :)

I just learnt what this song is called... I was years not knowing... I would get so deep into these albums I never looked what the songs were called.. wow... Amazing

A peaceful and poignant and beautiful song.

JAH BLESS VAN, AMEN

My dad just introduced me to this legend. I dont know why but i almost come to tears listening to this stuff man! Absolutely AMAZING!!!

wow lucky you, my dad didnt know much about van, we had beatles n common stuff more

@Cool Coyote at least you guys bonded over music, its wonderful!

ah nah it was my sisters and my mum more growing up. but later on we had karaoke so you're not entirely wrong

Van touches life...heart, soul, spirit.. simply...Van Morrison is a "spiritual experience"...simply.

Who can compare musically to this man? No one else writes songs like this. Period. And this is just one of many of similar quality that he's composed and performed.

agree he has it all musicianship, lyrical wonder, great voice

Philosophy, poetry, put to music, truly a holy man

vans spiritual but not religious thank god. hes agnostic did you know. just because someone sings something lordy doesnt mean that person is religious. 😁

@Cool Coyote believe in the God of nature which stood for millions of years, the teaming forest will return, if you are intelligent enough to understand existence forever has always been there we haven't, and you'll also hear van praising God

yeah theoretical

Just beautiful ❤️

Just beautiful ❤️

thx jane 😎

I saw you from a foreign window
Bearing down the sufferin' road
You were carryin' your burden

To the palace of the Lord
To the palace of the Lord

I spied you from a foreign window
When the lilacs were in bloom
And the sun shone through your window pane
To the place you kept your books

You were reading on your sofa
You were singin' every prayer
That the masters had instilled in you
Since Lord Byron loved despair

In the palace of the Lord
In the palace of the Lord

And if you get it right this time
You don't have to come back again
And if you get it right this time
There's no need to explain

I saw you from a foreign
Bearing down the sufferin' road
You were carryin' your burden
You were singing about Rimbaud

I was going down to Geneva
When the kingdom had been found
I was giving you protection
From the loneliness of the crowd

In the palace of the Lord
In the palace of the Lord

They were giving you religion
Breaking bread and drinking wine
And you laid out on the green hills
Just like when you were a child

I saw you from a foreign window
You were trying to find your way back home
You were carrying your defects
Sleeping on a pallet on the floor

In the palace of the Lord
In the palace of the Lord
In the palace of the Lord

Van’s arrangements/production on this album in particular are astonishing. Seems to me he doesn’t get enough credit for this.

hes well respected by all musicians, hes wowed and wondered most of them. its just that joe public never hears boo about this. i had to look into vans music deeper to get to his best stuff. radio stations only play those 4 or 5 common songs.

masterpiece.

Goosebumps time

van and his glorious foreign window i here my message hope you feel yours i do

His Lyrics and it's content really speak to one's heart and soul while the musical arrangements lift them to a higher plain. The man ' is ,the real deal.

The fact he even sings about this shit also, hes not really interested in being like everyone else, thats to be commended too

The female choir is pure heaven, and then there is the man with the godgiven voice.

exactly not only has he all the tools, he has wonderful backup singers and musicians around him

All his lyrics speak to my heart
God Bless you, Van~💖

This is a perfect song from the sweet, gorgeous album No Guru No Method No Teacher. Dig this immensely - thanks for the epic post.

van doesn't need bob dylan

of course not, this is the proper version :D

one of classic van songs my wife favourite songs by van ,emotion full of wonder pain love lonliness faith and pure love of of life for all

This song got me through some tough times in the past. In fact, many of his songs have gotten me through tough times.

Wow ! First time I've heard this one.

For Nigel.This song always sees you.R.I.P Mick. U were a one off.

Listen to the words of this song.

and the way he says it

My ex husband passed away on the 2nd June this year and he loved Van Morrison, (as I do). What a dilemma I had trying to choose from one of Vans songs. Ended up my son picked "Days like these" I really wanted "Reminds me of you". I hope wherever he is he is still listening to Van.

the path we tread
from our physical selves
to the spiritual world
as laid before us
beckoned by a mystic

Strings, horns, woodwinds and, and that voice

joe you are so rite people only hear brown eyed girl, i neverliked that song van has so many gems go through his catalogue so many beautifull songs

mm i did like brown eyed girl but cant stand moondance but both were over played on the radio as though this is all van is, i didnt think much of him until i discovered all his best songs and instrumentals that were a thousand times better, kinda like 'slegehammer' threw me off peter gabriel god i hated that stupid song but it turned out to be his worst song and yet thats all they played on the t.v and radio so stupid lol

Wayne Rennie

Perspective folks... it's all his body of work. It ain't why, it just is

simply majestic.

the version of this he did with Bob Dylan is something else.

i appreciated that version too, love bob as well.

kevphillips02 he didn‘t do this one

@Patrick Max Aeschbach

Bob Dylan did.

I just noticed a 2-Thumb-Down up on Right Hand under VIEWS, and If I catch these two who gave this GREAT SONG a 'Thumb-Down', I will sneak behind them when they're having their Dessert Dish and pour lots of Ketchup on their Dessert. HAHAHAHAHAHA. This Album is a masterpiece of great music created by this musical genius they call VAN MORRISON, The Man, The Man.

He is indeed The Man.

I second that ketchup ambush.. and I throw in some mayonnaise for good measure

horse-radish...

ZadZadrack 😂😂, another piece of genius from the Man.

Wow this man and his music, he gets better and better as the years roll on. Listen to the words "In the palace of the Lord" Quality

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I tried to find this on Grooveshark. It came up with a Bob Dylan version which sounded like the mid 70's Dylan. Too much harmonica and a nervous twitchy sound to it. Nothing even close to Van's version.

@Joe Durbin oh yes i know th 1,there is a docu on van done awhile ago i have th intro n where he says 'wel when i was singin it with dylan it just occurred to me that part of it could be about him'. also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzVSyoeKkMQ&index=3&list=WL

@Phillip McConnochie I played music many years ago for many years. Being 59 I have seen musicians go through changes much as we all do. Van Morrison much like Joe Cocker came into their own with a drastic change that was so much better than the music they originally were recognized for in the early days.

+Joe Durbin
Of course not. As great an artist as Bob Dylan is, he's basically a poet who sings his words, a bard, a balladeer, a skald. Van Morrison is something quite different. No one is quite like Van.

i enjoy bob too he's folk/rock more, he has his own style and i like his voice too. van is alot different of course and equally amazing if not more so, vans certainly got a better voice, tho bob's voice is a big part of his act too

This song is so good! You can almost hear an evangelist shouting "in the palace of the lord" the way Van sings this.

I just bought this 86 LP. Sounds great! Van Morrison at his best.  People only think of him as the Gloria or Brown Eyed Girl singer are missing the soul of Van as he drips the honey laden notes for us to enjoy.

n1 LP is th best

Thanks for posting all of the Van music. So many people do not appreciate his soulful music.  I have been playing guitar for about 50 years and I so enjoy playing along to his material. Great artist!

Veedon fleece

well said Joe. love The man.

how sweet the journey of life can be 

Sweet releif

If you get it right this time you dont need to come back-sweet,blessed relief-unexpectedly

crushedz buddhist philosophy.

Maybe not just Buddhist.

van said songs are just songs he means its all an act yes he sings about a lot of meaning and inspiring lyrics etc.. but basically what isnt an act?(saw this in an interview) but of course u can take from it what u like(he said in a bobdylan van singing session tht this could be about bob .(i dont understand u) (Funny how, sometimes, the only way to glimpse peace is to ask yourself to wish it to that Someone else.
Good luck, hon.) wtf is hon?

"I saw you from a foreign window
You were tryin' to find your way back home
You were carryin' your defects
Sleepin' on a pallet on the floor"

Damn.

Funny how, sometimes, the only way to glimpse peace is to ask yourself to wish it to that Someone else.

Good luck, hon.

yeah he says tht all music is spiritual n an interview so u may be right nice comments thx

My personal favourite of Van's.
Van transends songwriting.
It's more like a spiritual experience.

yeah its a bit deep in places but overall a wonderful album )

Indeed,it's one of his best albums too.