| After all the windows on the ground floor had been broken | |
| After all the undemanding officers had spoken | |
| After all the trouble, after all the commotion | |
| I walked right through | |
| The door was always open | |
| When I was seventeen, | |
| I set out on the ocean | |
| Searching for | |
| Columbus or wherever he was going | |
| Then twenty thousand miles came down to just a moment | |
| I sailed right through | |
| The door was always open | |
| I climbed the | |
| Western Wall without anybody knowing | |
| I held the guardsman captive with a pistol | |
| I had stolen | |
| He just poured a cup of coffee and said, "Son, now here's a notion" | |
| The next time you drop by | |
| The door is always open | |
| So it seems | |
| I've spent a lifetime restive and beholden | |
| To standing on the threshold absolutely frozen | |
| Waiting on some god above to tell me | |
| I was chosen | |
| Instead I spoke myself | |
| The door was always open | |
| Instead I spoke myself | |
| The door was always open |