Your favourite songs about someone being at the door

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVm7NNo82JA

^ truly the best chorus ever EVER

lol I posted that one on the FB thread

git facked

sheer poetry

that cosmic psychos song is sadly not on Spotify

I've decided The Visitors and Knockin On Heaven's Door are allowed in this as quasi outliers to the genre

How is 'The Visitors' a quasi outlier? The titular visitors are literally ringing the bell and trying the knob. I don't know how it's possible to be more 'at the door'.

Terri Gibbs, "Somebody's Knockin'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSplf_0JJiQ

And this thread cannot be complete without DuJour's immortal "Back Door Lover"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSO6I5YHyY

C.J. & Co., "Beware the Stranger"

Has no one mentioned the Allmans' "One Way Out" yet?

How is 'The Visitors' a quasi outlier? The titular visitors are literally ringing the bell and trying the knob. I don't know how it's possible to be more 'at the door'.

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I was just about to say this, but I think dog latin needs a break from me nit-picking at his posts. I know I do!

It’s All Over Now Baby Blue:

The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9PNoJuP-mk

xxp it's only cos people were calling Visitors into question. I agree, while the song's about a bit more than just being at the door, it describes enough door-based action to warrant it appearing in the canon of 'being at the door' songs

Van der Graaf, "Door"

They're a blind man crouching by the pavement,
only seeing with his third eye,
and clutching at the astral shadow
of the door of a room
called 'I'

there are now 34 songs in the Spotify playlist, not including things that I couldn't find on there, this is sterling work lads

Werewolves of London: you hear them howling around your kitchen door; better not let them in.

The Congos - Can't Come In

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoZcX92Lnk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqdWv_Ij2J8

good shout on the congos - can't believe i forgot that one

The Cramps - Green Door

TS - Cramps vs Shakin' Stevens

Turrican, my apologies earlier. I actually enjoy your reading more tbh

Hiding in plain sight: Tubeway Army, “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?”

Does "Tossin' and Turnin'" (Bobby Lewis) count -- "I heard the milkman at the door..."? If so, that.

the Stones - Midnight Rambler

Them - Gloria. She knocks on the door.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtXoHC9210s

Yochanan - Hot Skillet Momma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OplL0qdkzGk

Kate Bush - Get Out Of My House

John Lee Hooker - Let’s Go Out Tonight

Hear the screen door slam, Mary's dress waves...

Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Arctic monkeys - ultracheese

“Get freaked out by a knock at the door”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMATnqyVMZM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtllPBWMAog

and-ah-I would walk 500 miles and-ah-I would walk 500 more just to be tha man who walks a thousand miles
to fall down at your door

I'm up to 50 songs on Spotify now. Even I didn't realise there'd be so many amazing songs about someone being at the door

https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/7kqiCbf7fB27DuvIu7fDao?si=ssamMlQ3TJmMStLL-Wmc4w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At5pMQ15iTY

Paul Kelly - To Her Door

SHE SAID "SHOVE IT JACK I'M WALKIN' OUT YOUR FUCKIN' DOOR"

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Fright Night

Knock knock on the door three times
And you knock knock on the door
Said you used to talk to demons with my ouija board
But not anymore

Was (Not Was) - Walk the Dinosaur

Open the door, get on the floor
Everybody walk the dinosaur

Like, I think it's implied that the dinosaur shows up at his door while he's watching Miami Vice even though it all took place 40 million years ago? I think it might just barely qualify?

And you wake from your dream with a wolf at the door, reaching out for Veronica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZyezEhRhs

Shouldn't we include also The Doors "Break on Through to the Other Side" here?

Made the scene
Week to week
Day to day
Hour to hour
The gate is strait
Deep and wide

"I was surprised to see your suitcase at the door" might be tenuous but I always assume the person is at the door ready to leave in that line, taken from First Choice "Let No Man Put Asunder" and then sampled in Rhythm On The Loose "Break Of Dawn"

also lol I made the mistake of turning on noticfcations for that that thread on Facebook and my phone has been blowing up, what happened to your exile from it anyway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4xJvxSZ9aI

Talk about anti-climactic.

Ween, "So Many People in the Neighborhood"

"How's about a piece of pie? (ding dong ding dong)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnGq69ey5tw

Carole King "So Far Away"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofYl3dataU

So far away
Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore
It would be so fine to see your face at my door

and he came to a door...
and he looked inside...
"Father?"
"Yes, son?"
"I want to kill you"

perhaps insufficient "someone" and "literal door" content, but I've had "The Claw" by Ten Benson in my head since I first read this thread title, so: claw's scratching at my door

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftbCvjlS_pg

(or skip halfway through for the main draw of the song, the weird-vacuuming-noise solo)

This Mortal Coil - "Another Day"

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/collection-images/138-080-000.jpg

Have could we have come so far without mentioning Jimmy Nail's "Ain't No Doubt"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iF47M3YDlg

Jim even does a helpful mime to help us visual someone knocking at a door:

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HeavyCandidCicada-max-1mb.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kecN9z91Rpc

Early this morning
When you knocked upon my door
And I said "Hello Satan
I believe it's time to go"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYsnRc09csQ

I was trying to think if Madness had ever done one. 'Embarrassment' ('Stay away from our door') is the only one I can think of.

I linked to Uncle Sam a little ways upthread.

'here they come again, hop scotching up to my door'

Deep Purple - Knockin' At Your Back Door
Zep - Nobody's Fault But Mine ("Somebody open that DINGDONGDINGDONG)

Now, who is that knocking?
Who's knocking at my chamber door?
Now could it be the police?
They come and take me for a ride-ride
Oh, but I haven't got the time-time
Hey, hey, hey, she's busy sucking on my ding-dong

Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep