My Door Is Never

My door is always open
My door is always open
My door is always open to you
My door is always open
My door is always open
My door is always open to you
The night to self with the shoulder touch
Aroma for the duvet you slept in
No, not never, no day  (1)
Will I prove my nerve to you
Or impress your dipshit head like others do
I crave your death inside my mind's eye
A-and my beer will never be open
My door will never be open
My door will never be open to you
My door will never be open
My door will never be open
My door will never be open to you
To you
My door is always open
My door is always open
Everything that I was supposed to have learned
But my spectre is coming after you
I crave your death within my mind's eye
My door will never be open
My door will never be open
My door will never be open to you
My door will never be open to you
My door will never be open to you
My door will never be open
My door will never be open
My door will never be open to you
To you   (2)

1.  Dan asks, "Anyone else seeing an echo of 'Elves,' 'Couples vs Jobless Mid 30s' and Edgar Allan Poe here?" In "Elves" we hear "No never, no never no more/will I trust the elves of Dunsimore." "Couples vs Jobless Mid 30s" echoes Poe's "The Raven": "No, nevermore" (and continues with the apparent non  sequitur "Gargoyle legs are droopy"). 

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2. In 2015 the Fall revived this song, and the following lyrics come from a photograph of MES's lyric sheet, taken at Wakefield on May 9th (the Fall opened with the song). The enjambment is as in the handwritten version, and I tried to reproduce the capitalization, although I will readily admit that at least the latter is probably not very important:

No knock ever comes
my way
Your knot seems selfish
at the top
I ssee [sic] your diction
in my mind's eye

It then indicates that the chorus is to be repeated 5 times ("ch. x 5") and at the bottom it looks like it says "Spectre I wore".

Thanks to mrrogers from the Fall online forum.

From Paul G:

The Epilogue of Brix's book 'The Rise, The Fall and The Rise' recounts a tale of her visiting MES at his home in Manchester. She announces herself through the door but Smith doesn't open it and she leaves without seeing him.

There is no date to this story so we can't be 100% sure it pre-dates the song but it's a theory.

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My Door Is Never: Fall Tracks A-Z

The Story of the Fall: 2007