The Door
Album: Just Keep Goin'
By: Collin Daniels
By: Collin Daniels
Duration
4:28
Genres
Southern/Blues Rock/Rockabilly
Description
Song from the debut LP of this singer-songwriter-guitarist, who cut his teeth in the New York City punk rock scene before striking out on his own. This pop-rock tune, with its Southern-flavored guitar work, is a “sort-of” love letter to a former flame. Its subject somehow manages to express his anger at possibilities lost, forgiveness for her inability to truly love another, and a regret-tinged yet selfless wish, that she someday overcome her fears of getting close, and find true love with...
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We were so close to just right A friendship real and true From the start something was off I ignored it because I liked you Always thought it would get better But it just kept on the same way The weeks and months, they ticked by Great friends who might be more someday There’s a door deep in your heart You’re not even sure where it is But I know it is locked up tight And no one can get in One day I found I was unhappy Finally had to bring it up Had a hope that you could face it then Take a leap for our love You just smiled and you told me You didn’t know what I was talkin’ about Right then my heart it broke open And years of pain spilled out There’s a door deep in your heart You’re not even sure where it is But I know it is locked up tight And no one can get in There’s days I miss you so much (I know you do) I can’t help but cry (I hate to see you cry) The sadness it just comes (I miss you too) Every time I wonder why (Baby, I’m sorry) Why, why, why (I don’t know why) Open that door deep in your heart Look until you find where it is Yeah open up that door So someone can get in God damn, that door deep in your heart You didn’t even know it was there I couldn’t get past that door ‘Cause you were so scared
