Lyrics:

1989
Skip Ewing, Red Lane

To look at her, you'd never think
That in her heart she ever hurt that much
Though I seldom see it in her eyes
Though I never feel it in her touch

I know that somewhere there's a memory
A place inside that love has scared before
But I don't ever ask her anything about it
She never ever mentions the door

I've walked with her through every room
Where fear had never let her go alone
One by one we opened up the curtains
Let love in and made it feel at home

But there's one last room at the end of the hallway
She's never opened up to me before
Every now and then I pause there for a moment
And cast a painful shadow on the door

And sometimes late at night she wakes me when she trimbles
And I count her fading foot steps on the floor
And before I leave the bedroom to walk that ol hallway, I know
I'll see a light under the door

How anyone could hurt someone like her
I'll never understand
I only wish I had the strength
To pick her up and hold her in my hands

Cause it tears my heart out to hear her in there cryin
No, when I don't even know what for
All that I can do is match her tear for tear
And hurt there with her just outside the door

I'd break it in and rescue her,
But I'm afraid that would only hurt her more
So I crawl back in hide under my pillow and pretend
I never saw the light under the door