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I spend too much time raiding windmills
We go side by side
Laughing until it's right
There's something that you won't show
Waiting where the light goes
Take the darkest hour-break it open
Water to repair what we have broken
There's something that you won't show
Waiting where the light goes
And anyway the wind blows
It's all worth waiting for
Pull on the borders to lighten the load
Tell all the passengers we're going home
I spend too much time seeking shelter
World without end couldn't hold her
There's something that you won't show
Waiting where the light goes
And anyway the wind blows
It's all worth waiting for
Anyway the wind blows
We go side by side
Laughing until it's right
There's something that you won't show
Waiting where the light goes
Take the darkest hour-break it open
Water to repair what we have broken
There's something that you won't show
Waiting where the light goes
And anyway the wind blows
It's all worth waiting for
Pull on the borders to lighten the load
Tell all the passengers we're going home
I spend too much time seeking shelter
World without end couldn't hold her
There's something that you won't show
Waiting where the light goes
And anyway the wind blows
It's all worth waiting for
Anyway the wind blows
Lyrics submitted by rabidpenguin
Track duration: 03:47
"Windmills" as written by Dinning/guss/phillips/nichols
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So we spend too much time chasing windmills, but it's time to go home and be with the ones we love. Because in the end that's all we have. Maybe anyway life takes us is special and worth living for rather than always being focused on the future where life may never be fulfilled.
Latter Days is about a closeted gay Mormon missionary boy, Steve Sandvoss,who ends up in West LA living next door to a swinging-hot gay party boy, Wes Ramsey. The two encounter each other and struggle with their totally different lifestyles, values and attraction to one another.
When you consider the words to Windmills in the context of the movie, it makes sense, its all about the transformation from being a person inclined to hide who he/she is, to being genuine to the world about what they think they must hide. The person playing behind the Windmills wants to cut out the nonsense (pull on the borders; tell the passengers we're GOING HOME!) and accept that the world won't end and the damage that may result by their self liberation (it will only take water to repair the damage) will be minimal compared to the joy that awaits them. Now matter what happens; no matter how the wind blows, IT'S ALL WORTH WAITING FOR! Waiting, as opposed to doing it immediately may suggest that if one is not quite ready today, wait and do it when you are ready but definitely plan on doing it.
Now I don't know if the guys who wrote this song had this in mind, but clearly CJ Cox did when he selected Windmills to be the lead song in the Latter Days soundtrack.
I'm gay myself am gay and came out of the closet as a result of seeing the movie Latter Days a few times over a period of days. I've always fantasized that if I ever get married, we'll play Windmills to walk down the aisle.
Waiting where the light goes
Take the darkest hour-break it open
Water to repair what we have broken"
Perhaps the first couple lines are referring to the fact that we have some divinity within each of us that is waiting to escape. The final line here may be referring to baptism - which, according to most Christian churches, washes away our sins (something we have broken).
"Pull on the borders to lighten the load" doesn't make a lot of sense, and it doesn't seem to connect to the next line. That's because the correct lyrics are "Call on the porters to lighten the load." Porters are people whose job it is to carry your luggage.
As one person noted, it is "Take the darkest doubt"
And as another noted, it's is "Anywhere the wind blows," not "anyway."
but..the part where it says "Take the darkest hour-break it open"
does anyone think it says "take the darkest doubt-break it open"? just always sounded cooler to me.
great great song. i saw them (toad) live recently back to back shows and they played this both times. amazing.
Like the posts above, I agree "Windmills" is directly taken from the tale of Don Quixote (ie., chasing windmills and the albums title Dulcinea, Quixote's dream lover) and is used effectively in Glen's lyrics. I used to think the line
"I spend too much time raiding windmills"
was
"I spend too much time reading the news"
Then that wouldn't really fit into the context of the Don Quixote allusion, would it?
Or
'World without end, couldn't hold her' infinite possibilities of reality couldn't hold her, she committed suicide, died of drug addiction, some sort of a fatal attempt to escape the vagaries of reality...
Either way a love lost.