I Dont Knock Anymore

Intro My knuckles still know the shape of that door

Verse 1 Peeling paint comes off green on my hand Same flake of it stuck under my nail I stood on that mat till the welcome wore off Read the bowed nail loose in the rail I counted the times that I waited out there Breath fogging up the little glass square Hand up, hat off, the good-boy pose Listening hard for a chair to scrape the floor

Pre-Chorus I wore the polite right off my hand Some doors don't open, they just stare

Chorus I don't knock anymore I learned what the silence was for I don't knock anymore I walk in slow or I walk on past the floor Whatever waited behind that wood It can keep it, it never did me good I don't knock anymore

Verse 2 There's a porch lamp I used to walk toward Like a moth that believed in the glass Now I pass it the way you pass a grave Tip the hat, but I don't slow my step The mat says welcome in faded thread A word that they never once meant for me So I keep my boots on the open road And I let the locked house keep its company

Pre-Chorus I wore the polite right off my hand Some doors don't open, they just stare

Chorus I don't knock anymore I learned what the silence was for I don't knock anymore I walk in slow or I walk on past the floor Whatever waited behind that wood It can keep it, it never did me good I don't knock anymore

Bridge There's a kind of quiet a man can learn Where you stop asking to be let inside You stop being the one out there in the cold And the door starts wondering where you went tonight I don't knock anymore I learned what the silence was for I don't knock anymore I walk in slow or I walk on past the floor Whatever waited behind that wood It can keep it, it never did me good I don't knock anymore

Outro I don't knock anymore

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