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This is the latest version that I used for my album released on The Lost Records, A BIT OF LIGHT. I added organ (the biggest change) and remastered the track, bringing up the level and adding some clarity. I've always really liked these lyrics. I think the organ lifts the song emotionally.
I wrote it during my Steve Sondheim stage, when I was into dense lyrics. My son, Anton (twonicus), helps with the higher harmonies. I wrote the song shortly after meeting Suzanne in early 2001. When I had recorded my first demo, we played it while driving down the West Side Highway and sang along at the top of our lungs with the windows open (I haven't done that since a teenager, nor have I since). Kind of our own little Hungarian Rhapsody moment. That's when I knew she really liked it.
Earlier version: Door In My Heart (03/2004).
This track was remastered and appears on my 2007 release, A Bit Of Light, available through CDBaby.
I wrote it during my Steve Sondheim stage, when I was into dense lyrics. My son, Anton (twonicus), helps with the higher harmonies. I wrote the song shortly after meeting Suzanne in early 2001. When I had recorded my first demo, we played it while driving down the West Side Highway and sang along at the top of our lungs with the windows open (I haven't done that since a teenager, nor have I since). Kind of our own little Hungarian Rhapsody moment. That's when I knew she really liked it.
Earlier version: Door In My Heart (03/2004).
This track was remastered and appears on my 2007 release, A Bit Of Light, available through CDBaby.
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Lyrics
DOOR IN MY HEART
What changes us, arranges us,
soon estranges all we once held near,
justifies our want and lapse,
these boundaries called a man?
What merges us, and furthers us,
then diverges from what was once dear,
binding what we are to what we fear?
What chooses us, excuses us,
then confuses what was once so clear,
tearing up in daily life
answers once so true and real?
What traces us, embraces us,
then replaces in one silent tear
the ocean of a living soul...
when love is locked away?
There’s a door in my heart,
a door without a key.
What summons us, condenses us,
and shatters self-defenses thus?
What can bring us joy again
if love is locked away?
I thought I’d lived all that I could of life...
and then you walked in.
There’s a door in my heart and it’s opened to you.
There’s a door to that greater part of me.
There’s a door that was locked and hidden away.
Only you take me through that threshold.
Only you open up the world.
Open up that secret world.
What dreams us, forms between us,
what redeems us in this happy way?
What makes us worth our lives again,
if love is locked away?
©2001, 2007 Tobin James Mueller
What changes us, arranges us,
soon estranges all we once held near,
justifies our want and lapse,
these boundaries called a man?
What merges us, and furthers us,
then diverges from what was once dear,
binding what we are to what we fear?
What chooses us, excuses us,
then confuses what was once so clear,
tearing up in daily life
answers once so true and real?
What traces us, embraces us,
then replaces in one silent tear
the ocean of a living soul...
when love is locked away?
There’s a door in my heart,
a door without a key.
What summons us, condenses us,
and shatters self-defenses thus?
What can bring us joy again
if love is locked away?
I thought I’d lived all that I could of life...
and then you walked in.
There’s a door in my heart and it’s opened to you.
There’s a door to that greater part of me.
There’s a door that was locked and hidden away.
Only you take me through that threshold.
Only you open up the world.
Open up that secret world.
What dreams us, forms between us,
what redeems us in this happy way?
What makes us worth our lives again,
if love is locked away?
©2001, 2007 Tobin James Mueller
lengold
love to be able to write songs like this when I grow up. A great professional sounding show tune played, sung and produced beautifully. Yes, the organ fits perfectly and the panning of it is very interesting.
(I only wish that I could have heard it all the way through and not in dribs and drabs - tried to download but timed out?)
Cheers
Len