Every Heart Is a Doorway

[bnewman]

Based on Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "Crossing the Water" by Bill Staines

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We are crossing the threshold where're we roam

We are seeking a passage that will take us home

Every heart is a doorway, every wish is a key

That unlocks the way to where we're meant to be

 

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Some children find the doors that lead to worlds beyond our own

Those ways have closed behind us, but we know we're not alone

Yet with every breath within us, we search forever more

To find some other key to fit that long-lost door

 

We are crossing the threshold where're we roam...

 

For some it is a glory, for some it is a game

For some it is a story filled with emptiness and pain

But for one chance of returning, think of the rules you'd bend

Would you justify, would you tell a lie, would you kill a friend?

 

We are crossing the threshold where're we roam...

 

This school became our refuge, when each of us was lost

And we all want to go home again, but not at any cost

Now to catch the wolf among us will take all our wits and skill

Can you taste your death, can you hold your breath, can you stand quite still?

 

We are crossing the threshold where're we roam...

 

Oh, there is no other journey that will ever be the same,

No second chance horizon that will call you by your name.

As your heart cries out with longing to reach that distant land

Let your spirit yearn and the knob will turn underneath your hand

 

We are crossing the threshold where're we roam...