Your favourite songs about someone being at the door

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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

William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link

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

William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link

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

William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link

B52s - Love Shack

Neil S, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link

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

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link

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

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link

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

nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link

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)

a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link

This Mortal Coil - "Another Day"

Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link

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

Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link

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

calzino, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link

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

Ex Slacker, Thursday, 7 June 2018 01:39 (five years ago) link

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.

My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Thursday, 7 June 2018 08:12 (five years ago) link

I linked to Uncle Sam a little ways upthread.

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

MaresNest, Thursday, 7 June 2018 09:34 (five years ago) link

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

Cannonley Adderall (InternationalWaters), Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link

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

nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 7 June 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link

Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep

dinnerboat, Thursday, 7 June 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link


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