The East Door (Live) Lyrics

Coming in through the east door

Just off the road

Backpack on his back was packed

With a heavy load

And an old friend had told him

He said, hey when you get to town

Take the road, go across the river

That's where the east door's found

And you go in through the east door

Go in through the east door

Found his way to that east door

And he opened it real wide

Oversized pack of life on his back

Hit the jams on both sides

And he sat down in the room

He was starting to feel warm

Left the biting cold of life outside

Found a port in a storm

Figured he could sit a spell

Grab a bite to eat

Then his plan was moving on

Back down the street

Come in through the east door

Come in through the east door

Well life had thrown some twisted tricks

On the traveling man

Cards that he'd been dealt

Looked like a real bad hand

But he had himself a tattoo

Said he was born to lose

Doing his best, living up to it

Trying to walk in those shoes

There was parts of him that were missing

Parts had been left out

Something from early in life

He didn't want to talk about

But he'd come in through the east door

Come in through the east door

Started taking off that backpack

He tried to set it down

That's when he heard the bell ring

For the start of another round

And all that weight he'd carried round

And the pain he held inside

Stuffing himself as full as he could

With what he called life

And the wrestling match it was on the floor

They rolling round and round

There struggling to get control

Of what's lost and what's found

Come in through the east door

Come in through the east door

The traveling man he was losing

Going down real hard

Didn't have an ace up his sleeve

In his deck of those backpack cards

He was going down for the last time

He was about to take the count

From the other side of that east door

A hand reached out

Oh the spirit it was moving

It tapped him on the back

And it whispered hey I brought you here

I know you're under attack

I've been trying to get your attention

I've been trying to get you to see

I've got a better plan for your life

Won't you come follow me

That's what Jesus said

Come in through the east door

Come in through the east door

Come in through the east door

Come in through the east door