Open the Door

September 2023

Black and white image of Gabby's face against the sky. Their hair is messy. The image is circled in red oil pencil and the words, "Open The Door" are written in the bottom, right corner.

Song Credits

Music and lyrics by Gabby Smith

Produced by Gabby Smith and Barrie Lindsay

Mixed by Gabby Smith and Barrie Lindsay

Special thanks to Grace Weir

Artwork by Gabby Smith

Lyrics

The end of the week approaching

I crave the kind of din from outside

The black versus white

The taking of sides

So I sit just outside the threshold and I

I wait for

You to

Open the door

To open the door

I wait for

You to

Open the door

To open the door

Your acid tone

I bite my tongue

This is the most sunken way you’ve acted

And the onus is on me to see beyond

The golden textures you’ve drawn

Across my vision

I wait for

You to

Open the door

To open the door

I wait for

You to

Open the door

To open the door

A braid forms

Encircles

Protects the world

Elemental

In our hurt we unlearn

A severed love

A wounded form

But what does outlast us

The tether through the

Brick wall we built up

I wait for

You to

Open the door

To open the door

I wait for

You to

Open the door

To open the door

I wait for

You to

Open the door

To open the door