Leave the Door Unlocked Male 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