Day 458 - Day 093

“What if I came knocking on your front door some night?

Would you open the window and drop me down the key?”

What If I Came Knocking? – John Mellencamp, Human Wheels

 

This song came out when I was still in my shy stage- afraid to really approach women to tell them how I felt about them. (Yes, I actually had one of those stages in my life). I remember hearing this song for the first time, driving down a road really late at night listening to the radio, thinking to myself “Like it’s that easy…”

 

The truth of the matter, so I found out later in life, is that it is that easy. I had to learn to be who I was, and if people didn’t like who I was, then why would I want to be with them in the first place? It is such a simple truth that I unfortunately learned far too late in life. I still have my moments of shyness now and then- but they are very few and far between!

 

 

This song

 

*** Artist Notes ***

I wonder what my neighbors thought of me, and a tripod at my door so early in the morning!

 

Lyrics:

What if I came knocking

On your front door some night?

Would you open the window

And drop me down the key?

 

What if I came knocking

On your bedpost that same night?

Would you open up your heart

Or try to get the best of me?

 

What if I came knocking

On your brain the next day

And ask for your truth and your love and your honesty?

Would you build up your big walls

And try to hide behind that smile

Or would you try and pull the wool right over me?

 

So what if I came knocking?

So what if I came knocking?

So what if I came kicking

And it scared you a little bit

And I came on strong

Would you think

That there's something wrong with me?

 

Or could it be your fears

Of trying something real

Or just afraid to touch

A guy like me?

 

What if I came knocking?

What if I came knocking?

What if I came knocking?

On your front door some night? Ahh

So let's just say it worked out

Like a storybook dream

And we lived happily ever after

Fa la la la

 

But what if I came crying

After just a few weeks

And said I misread my heart

This is not really meant to be? Yeah

 

So if you hear some knocking

On your window tonight

You can bet that it's probably me

But let it be known

That we're just a pair of tumbling dice

And the outcome of these crap shoots

Is hard to see

 

So what if I came knocking?

So what if I came knocking?

So what if I came knocking

On your front door tonight? Ahh

SO what if I came knocking?

Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knocking

Kick, kick, kick

What if I came knocking

On your front porch tonight, tonight?

 

 

Done