From the recording Looking out a Picture Window
"Susan wrote this song about the place we lived for several years (Ranchos de Taos, NM) ... she loves to write songs about the Southwest, and we loved the desert."
Bill Nash (guitar and lead vocal)
Dave Nachmanoff (fretless bass, viola)
Megan Kleven (harmony vocals)
Bart Van Der Zeeuw (percussion)
Lyrics
Track 4 - Taos Mountain – Susan Miles/Bill Nash – Standard Tuning - Capo 4
She held him in a painter’s light
Full of promise, shiny bright
She knew of all the gifts he had
None quite touched her like the music had
She thought of him the most at daybreak
When the sun shines through the aspen trees
As she’s gazing back across the river
He’s the empty space a shadow leaves
Chorus
Let the wind blow all the snow (3X) off Taos Mountain
Soon with the coming of the Spring
Gone like footprints in a stream
Down the dirt road in the high desert
She knows there’s no other place he’d rather be
A song he left behind is now a whisper
In the river where the horses drink
An imprint of a hand upon a window
A cup left behind in an empty sink
CH
Bridge
Sometimes we think a heart’s half empty
On nights we feel the heavy full moon’s pull
Remember our thought’s may be deceiving
For it’s really a heart that’s full (CH 2X)