Leave the Door Unlocked Female Vocal

There was a time when morning came And mother said,

"go on and play"

Just be back home when the tea's on the table And don't

you fret, we'll be fine

either way

No phone to call,

no way to track us Just a promise made with a nod

We'd run those fields till the light was fading And nobody thought

that odd

Back when you could leave the door unlocked

And the neighbours all knew your name Back when a bike ride

lasted till the streetlights Called you home again the same Back when

the world felt smaller somehow

Safer, slower, kinder too

Lord, I miss those days we used to leave the door unlocked

Don't know if that world is coming back to you

The corner shop would let us run a tab

Old Fred would trust us till payday came

The milkman left the bottles on the doorstep Never once did a

soul feel shame

We'd climb the trees and build our dens Come home with muddy

knees and grins

The bobby on his beat would tip his helmet Said "evening" like

we were all his kin Now the doors are locked with three

keys turning Cameras watching every street

Cars alarmed and windows barred up tight Some roads we're told,

don't walk at night It's not the world we knew as children

Something precious slipped away

I wonder if the kids today will ever Know the freedom of

that yesterday

So I'll tell my grandkids of those mornings

Of a world that trusted,

wide and free

Not to make them long for what they can't have But to

hold what's good in memory

And maybe if we love a little louder Watch out for each

other on our street We could find a piece of what we

once had Somewhere between the old and the new,

we'd meet

So here's to leaving the door unlocked

And the neighbours who knew your name

Here's to a bike ride till the streetlights Called you home again

the same

Here's to a world that once felt smaller Safer,

slower, kinder too

Lord, I still dream of the days we left the door unlocked

I hope that some of that world comes back to you (comes

back to you)