Windows

Album: This Life (2023)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Windows" is a glimmering, string-infused mid-tempo track with a touch of retro psychedelia. Lyrically, it's a hopeful and optimistic anthem about new beginnings as Take That sing about embracing a brighter future.
  • You opened up
    Opened up my windows
    Like fire in the sky
    You know what it's like


    Take That sing of a challenging year, battling feelings of entrapment and despair, and struggling to face each new day. But then a supportive individual intervened, helping them to throw open those metaphorical windows. Now they feel free, ready to seize fresh opportunities and embrace the path ahead.
  • Throughout the song, the recurring motif of windows thrown wide symbolizes a turning point - a lifeline extended, introducing clarity, warmth, and the promise of a new dawn into the artists' lives.
  • Take That wrote "Windows" themselves. They recorded it in Nashville with producer Dave Cobb, who has previously worked with the likes of Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell and Brandi Carlile.
  • "Windows" is the lead single from This Life, Take That's ninth studio album in over six years. Released on September 22, 2023, it's the group's first new song since "Out of Our Heads" in 2018.

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