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Girl in the Window

from Insteption by The Dick & Jane Project

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about

Olesya moved to the United States from Ukraine at the end of fourth grade. At the time she was fluent in Ukrainian, but only beginning to learn English. Initially she was…“totally lost. I knew little English. I could put together some phrases like ‘Hi, how are you?’…that’s pretty much it. We came in the beginning of the summer, so I had three months to learn English and go straight to fifth grade.” Luckily for Olesya, she was not alone in her quest to conquer a new language. “Thanks to my dad, he helped me out a lot. Everyday I would come home from school and we’d sit down at the table and he’d go through every single word.” Now gaining control of her English, her next project was the intimidating social gauntlet of middle school. “Making friends was kind of hard, everyone was like ‘ there is this new girl and she is really weird. She doesn’t understand the culture and doesn’t do everything like everybody else. So it took me the first year to adapt.” But adapt she did, and when one of those friends she made was going through a breakup, she put herself in her friends shoes and wrote the lyrics to what eventually became the song.

lyrics

I was sitting in the window,
trying to find the me lost inside,
so sad I wanted to cry,
felt a drop on the side of my cheek,
wiped it away,
came running down faster than rain.
I didn’t know what to say,
so I hid in my room for the rest of the day,
and I cried in my pillow.

Sat on my bed,
trying to forget all the things that you said.
They came back every time that I shut my eyes.
I couldn’t fall asleep because my dreams took over the world.

I should have known.
I should have known
that you were going to break my heart
till the last piece shattered to the ground.
I dream of you,
our touch,
our kiss,
the way your lips touched mine,
your hands felt on my side,
the moment our hearts collide.

Open your arms,
if you only showed me your heartless ways.
I thought you loved me.
Your voice it echoes, echoes inside my head.
I wake up with worry about every moment.
My life is just a fear.
I miss you.
I want to be with you,
but you moved on to another girl.

Hoping for love,
but now I found myself right here,
writing this song,
pouring out all my heart,
hoping you’d hear it once and for all.

I should have known.
I should have known
that you were going to break my heart
till the last piece shattered to the ground.
I dream of you, our touch, our kiss,
the way your lips touched mine,
your hands felt on my side,
the moment our hearts collide.

I found myself sitting in the window,
stopping the tears.
But I’m getting stronger,
no longer so lonely.

I’d know I am lovely.

credits

from Insteption, released August 21, 2012
Lyrics- Olesya, Phoenix Middle School
Music- Members of the DewDroppers
Recorded and mixed by Joseph Anthony Camerlengo
Released on Insteption in August 2012 at The Ohio Statehouse
Radio Premier: October 2012

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