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Doug Davis - Knocking on the Wrong Door

from Round 5, Week 3 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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I don't think my heart was ever really in this one, and I guess you can hear it, which is a shame, 'cause I think it started out with a little bit of promise, musically. But it's a self-important, overwrought, bitter song about a time in my life that I was definitely feeling self-important, overwrought, and bitter, so there you go. Hope I've grown up a little since then. It's fairly oblique and meant to be that way, because it really isn't about any one person or relationship. Just sort of about being young and stupid and not knowing what to do with the gifts that are put in front of you.

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It's in my palms, half-open
It's in the trunk of my car
It's in the way I've been hoping
To finally be where you are

So hide your diamond necklace
Stash your best cigars
Bury deep your heart strings
Your gold in mason jars

I don't know what to do
With what you've given me

So fake your sleep
Can't you hear me knocking?
I sing out of key when the
Church bells chime
It's all so cheap
Never learned the value
Knocking on the wrong door
One more time

It's not the gin that's been talking
It only slows me down
It's not the fire where I'm walking
Don't even know when I've drowned

It's everything I wanted
Didn't want it, after all all
You could say I should feel haunted
May have been, I can't recall

I don't know what to do
With what you've given me

So fake your sleep
Can't you hear me knocking?
I sing out of key when the
Church bells chime
It's all so cheap
Never learned the value
Knocking on the wrong door
One more time

So fake your sleep
Can't you hear me knocking?
I sing out of key when the
Church bells chime
It's all so cheap
Never learned the value
Knocking on the wrong door
One more time

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from Round 5, Week 3, released February 9, 2015

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