Open a Different Door (1978)

This isn't the world you open your door to anymore

There is some place else you desire to explore

And how, why and what it's all for

Is something you left behind another door

The dirt driveway has vanished with the street

And so have all the people you used to meet

No more Christmas, Easter or trick or treat

On a strange land you have placed your feet

It's a different world out there

But for some reason you don't care

The past has been too unkind and too unfair

And you've decided it's time to go somewhere

But people are different and don't understand

You've given up trying to lend a hand

And your smile is imported from another land

As fake as your personality but you don't give a damn

So you've learned a lesson to take along

To a place some say you definitely belong

And whether you feel right or wrong

You say you have waited much too long

It's time to go and leave the place

You seem to think is a disgrace

But are you sure it's not a waste

And you're just trying to prevent loss of face

Remember where you've gone and where you've been

Things you've done that can never be attempted again

It's remembering that if you commit that sin

You'll be at an end with no place to begin

Life will change dramatically for you this year

And it's not as if you were living here

When nights are long and you begin to fear

Remember always that someone is near