The Door

“The Door” is a breakup song. It’s the ‘trying to stay strong song,’ that culminates in a fantasy of turning up on his front porch, only to be greeted by his wife. Never happened in real life, I’m happy to report! The French man with a voice of gold at the beginning of the song is an engineer who was interning at Eastside Sound. He’d been assisting us during the sessions and I thought he had a great voice and a magnetic presence. I had to get him on my record. He was so kind to get in the booth and collaborate with me. I don’t speak French well, so we worked together on translating the bridge, which is more or less a haiku about a hummingbird seeming to freeze in time before it flies away.