Gotta Knock a Little Harder - Platina Jazz, Douglas Unger

Happiness is just a word to me

And it might have meant a thing or two

If I’d known the difference

Emptiness, a lonely parody

And my life, another smokin' gun

A sign of my indifference

Always keepin' safe inside

Where no one ever had a chance

To penetrate a break in

Let me tell you some have tried

But I would slam the door so tight

That they could never get in

Kept my cool under lock and key

And I never shed a tear

Another sign of my condidtion

Fear of love or bitter vanity

That kept me on the run

The main events at my confession

I kept a chain upon my door

That would shake the shame of Cain

Into a blind submission

The burning ghost without a name

Was calling all the same

But I wouldn’t listen

The longer I’d stall

The further I’d crawl

The further I’d crawl

The harder I’d fall

I was crawlin' into the fire

The more that I saw

The further I’d fall

The further I’d fall

The lower I’d crawl

I kept fallin' into the fire

Into the fire

Into the fire

Suddenly it occurred to me

The reason for the run and hide

Had totaled my existnce

Everything left on the other side

Could never be much worse that this

But could I go the distance

I faced the door and all my shame

Tearin' off each piece of chain

Until they all were broken

But no matter how I tried

The other side was licked so tight

That door it wouldn’t open

Gave it all that I got

And started to knock

Shouted for someone

To open the lock

I just gotta get through the door

And the more that I knocked

The hotter I got

The hotter I got

The harder I’d knock

I just gotta break through the door

Gotta knock a little harder

Gotta knock a little harder

Gotta knock a little harder

Break through the door