Your favourite songs about someone being at the door

Hop Along - The Knock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuWdggpr3Os

the WITNESS just wants to TALK TO YOUUUUU

Is the visitors about old friends coming over od occult forces? I always thought the visitors were demons or something tbh

You're kidding me, right?

No I’m not, I legitimately had no idea what the song was about until I just looked up the meaning. I thought the beauty of music was interpretation tbh.

It's quite blatantly about people that are in hiding because they've spoken out against their government and they're being "visited" by officials that want to silence them.

'The Day Before You Came' is more vague, and possibly more menacing as a result, but that's another thread.

Well now I know that but man, did you know that the first time you heard it? I only heard the record for the first time a month ago. Not sure where you get the manual for the holy objectivity of music but let me know.

See, I've heard the song as an agoraphobe's perspective of friends stopping by to check in on them, but Turrican has spoken.

Getting flashbacks to when sanpaku corrected my interpretation of these days by ane Brun, a song I’ve always taken to be about distant lovers. Apparently it’s ahour depression and my reading was wrong.

Yeah old lunch I definitely can hear that. Shades of Kate Bush all the love thematically

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― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 10:36 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's the joke, otherwise it's just a song about someone knocking at the door, which isn't very absurd.

Turrican otm on The Visitors btw.

tom petty - don't come around here no more

cosmic psychos - can't come in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVm7NNo82JA

^ truly the best chorus ever EVER

lol I posted that one on the FB thread

git facked

sheer poetry

that cosmic psychos song is sadly not on Spotify

I've decided The Visitors and Knockin On Heaven's Door are allowed in this as quasi outliers to the genre

How is 'The Visitors' a quasi outlier? The titular visitors are literally ringing the bell and trying the knob. I don't know how it's possible to be more 'at the door'.

Terri Gibbs, "Somebody's Knockin'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSplf_0JJiQ

And this thread cannot be complete without DuJour's immortal "Back Door Lover"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSO6I5YHyY

C.J. & Co., "Beware the Stranger"

Has no one mentioned the Allmans' "One Way Out" yet?

How is 'The Visitors' a quasi outlier? The titular visitors are literally ringing the bell and trying the knob. I don't know how it's possible to be more 'at the door'.

― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Monday, June 4, 2018 1:42 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was just about to say this, but I think dog latin needs a break from me nit-picking at his posts. I know I do!

It’s All Over Now Baby Blue:

The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9PNoJuP-mk

xxp it's only cos people were calling Visitors into question. I agree, while the song's about a bit more than just being at the door, it describes enough door-based action to warrant it appearing in the canon of 'being at the door' songs

Van der Graaf, "Door"

They're a blind man crouching by the pavement,
only seeing with his third eye,
and clutching at the astral shadow
of the door of a room
called 'I'

there are now 34 songs in the Spotify playlist, not including things that I couldn't find on there, this is sterling work lads

Werewolves of London: you hear them howling around your kitchen door; better not let them in.

The Congos - Can't Come In

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoZcX92Lnk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqdWv_Ij2J8

good shout on the congos - can't believe i forgot that one

The Cramps - Green Door

TS - Cramps vs Shakin' Stevens

Turrican, my apologies earlier. I actually enjoy your reading more tbh

Hiding in plain sight: Tubeway Army, “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?”

Does "Tossin' and Turnin'" (Bobby Lewis) count -- "I heard the milkman at the door..."? If so, that.

the Stones - Midnight Rambler

Them - Gloria. She knocks on the door.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtXoHC9210s

Yochanan - Hot Skillet Momma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OplL0qdkzGk

Kate Bush - Get Out Of My House

John Lee Hooker - Let’s Go Out Tonight

Hear the screen door slam, Mary's dress waves...

Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Arctic monkeys - ultracheese

“Get freaked out by a knock at the door”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMATnqyVMZM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtllPBWMAog

and-ah-I would walk 500 miles and-ah-I would walk 500 more just to be tha man who walks a thousand miles
to fall down at your door

The Ghouls - Dracula's Theme

fwiw quite keen to not include metaphorical doors or vague references to doors or door-like entranceways here peeps. the song has to be about somebody being at the door

Death, "Keep On Knocking"

Dubstar, "Not So Manic Now"

Aeon, "Doorknocker"

Phil Collins “In the Air Tonight”

?

Chris Stamey, "The Summer Sun"

The Ex and Tom Cora, "A Door"

The Replacements - "Kick Your Door Down"

did anyone say The Walk by The Cure yet?

I called you after midnight
Then ran until I burst
I passed the howling woman
And stood outside your door

Bob Marley - Waiting In Vain <-- i could be wrong but this has a bit about knocking on a door for three years i think?

Van Morrison - Dweller At The Threshold

^ I wouldn't wish homelessness on anyone but I do like to think that this is literally about Van living on someone's doorstep

B52s - Love Shack

Hank Williams - Never Again (Will I Knock on Your Door)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jts27gZfKQo

tbh this is kind of an anti-example, being about NOT being at the door

Carole King "So Far Away"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofYl3dataU

So far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore
It would be so fine to see your face at my door

and he came to a door...
and he looked inside...
"Father?"
"Yes, son?"
"I want to kill you"

perhaps insufficient "someone" and "literal door" content, but I've had "The Claw" by Ten Benson in my head since I first read this thread title, so: claw's scratching at my door

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftbCvjlS_pg

(or skip halfway through for the main draw of the song, the weird-vacuuming-noise solo)

This Mortal Coil - "Another Day"

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/collection-images/138-080-000.jpg

Have could we have come so far without mentioning Jimmy Nail's "Ain't No Doubt"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iF47M3YDlg

Jim even does a helpful mime to help us visual someone knocking at a door:

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HeavyCandidCicada-max-1mb.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kecN9z91Rpc

Early this morning
When you knocked upon my door
And I said "Hello Satan
I believe it's time to go"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYsnRc09csQ

I was trying to think if Madness had ever done one. 'Embarrassment' ('Stay away from our door') is the only one I can think of.

I linked to Uncle Sam a little ways upthread.

'here they come again, hop scotching up to my door'

Deep Purple - Knockin' At Your Back Door
Zep - Nobody's Fault But Mine ("Somebody open that DINGDONGDINGDONG)

Now, who is that knocking?
Who's knocking at my chamber door?
Now could it be the police?
They come and take me for a ride-ride
Oh, but I haven't got the time-time
Hey, hey, hey, she's busy sucking on my ding-dong

Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep