Gotta Knock a Little Harder
 Composed and Arranged by Yoko Kanno 
  Words by Tim Jensen
  Vocals by Mai Yamane (5:19)
  
  Happiness is just a word to me
  And it might have meant a thing or two
  If I'd had known the difference
  
  
  Emptiness, a lonely parody
  And my life, another smokin' gun
  A sign of my indifference
    
  Always keepin' safe inside
  Where no one ever had a chance
  To penetrate or break in
    
  Let me tell you some have tried
  But I would slam the door so tight  
That they could never get in  
  
Kept my cool under a lock and key  
And I never shed a tear  
Another sign of my condition  
  
Fear of love or bitter vanity  
That kept me on the run  
The main events at my confession  
  
I kept a chain upon my door  
That would shake the shame of Cain  
Into a blind submission  
  
The burning ghost without a name  
Was still calling all the same  
But I just wouldn't listen  
  
The longer I'd call  
The further I'd crawl  
The further I'd crawl  
the harder I'd fawll  
I was crawlin' into the fire  
  
The more that I saw  
The further I'd fall  
The further I'd fall   
the lower I'd crawl  
I kept fallin' into the fire  
Into the fire  
Into the fire  
  
Suddenly it occured to me  
The reason for the run and hide  
Had totaled my existence  
  
Everything left on the other side  
could never be much worse than this  
But I could go the distance  
  
I face the door and all my shame  
Tearin' off each piece of chain  
Until they all were broken  
  
But no matter how I tried  
The other side was locked up so tight  
The door it wouldn't open  
  
Give it all that I got  
And started to knock  
Shouted for someone  
To open the lock  
I just gotta get through the door  
  
And the more that I knocked  
The hotter I got  
The hotter I got   
the harder I'd knock  
I just gotta break through the door  
  
Gotta knock a little harder  
Gotta knock a little harder  
Gotta knock a little harder  
Break through the door  
  
 
 
  
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