Melissa Etheridge Lyrics

Album: Brave and Crazy

My Back Door Lyrics

When I was a child

 I dreamed like a child of wonder

 With my back in the grass

 My eyes to the sky to see

 I believed in the stars

 I knew they cast a spell that I was under

 With my fingers in the dirt

 I was part of the earth

 Every living thing was part of me

 

 But it's gone, it's gone

 It's gone, it's gone, gone

 I can't feel it

 I can't feel it

 Must've found a way out my back door

 Must've run away out my back door

 Because it's gone, gone, gone

 

 Then I fell in love

 Love gave me a shot of pure desire

 There was nothing else like this

 This unimagined bliss this ecstasy

 Deep inside the night

 I believed I saw the light ignite a fire

 And it burned into the dark

 It burned deep inside my heart

 I thought it would burn eternally

 

 But it's gone, it's gone

 It's gone, it's gone, gone

 I can't feel it

 I can't feel it

 Must've found a way out my back door

 Must've run away out my back door

 Because it's gone, gone, gone

 

 So I run into the street

 And I'm shouting into the phone

 Asking everyone I meet

 I say have you seen it on my doorstep

 Did you see it in my car

 Have you seen it in the alley

 Was it on the back of some guitar

 Is it sleeping in the hallway

 Does it cry all night alone

 Is it selling itself for money

 Does it want, does it want to come home