Like a ghost don't need a key
Your best friend I've come to be
Please don't think of getting up for me
You don't even need to speak
When I've been here for just one day
You'll already miss me if I go away
So close the blinds and shut the door
You won't need other friends anymore
Oh don't leave home, oh don't leave home
And if you're cold, I'll keep you warm
If you're low, just hold on
'Cause I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
And I arrived when you were weak
I'll make you weaker, like a child
Now all your love you give to me
When your heart is all I need
Oh don't leave home, oh don't leave home
And if you're cold, I'll keep you warm
And if you're low, just hold on
'Cause I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
Oh how quiet, quiet the world can be
When it's just you and little me
Everything is clear, and everything is new
So you won't be leaving, will you?
And if you're cold, I'll keep you warm
And if you're low, just hold on
'Cause I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
'Cause I will be your safety
And I will be your safety
I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
Your best friend I've come to be
Please don't think of getting up for me
You don't even need to speak
When I've been here for just one day
You'll already miss me if I go away
So close the blinds and shut the door
You won't need other friends anymore
Oh don't leave home, oh don't leave home
And if you're cold, I'll keep you warm
If you're low, just hold on
'Cause I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
And I arrived when you were weak
I'll make you weaker, like a child
Now all your love you give to me
When your heart is all I need
Oh don't leave home, oh don't leave home
And if you're cold, I'll keep you warm
And if you're low, just hold on
'Cause I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
Oh how quiet, quiet the world can be
When it's just you and little me
Everything is clear, and everything is new
So you won't be leaving, will you?
And if you're cold, I'll keep you warm
And if you're low, just hold on
'Cause I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
'Cause I will be your safety
And I will be your safety
I will be your safety
Oh, don't leave home
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Don't Leave Home Lyrics as written by Rollo Armstrong Dido Armstrong
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This song sounds a little bit obsessive/overly possessive to me. I suppose it could be taken to be sweet, but it sounds to me more like she doesn't want him to go anywhere without her or do anything without her or talk to anyone except her (I mean, really- 'you won't need other friends anymore'?) I like it anyway, though. ^_^
<br /> Real Meaning-explained in first paragraph<br /> <br /> The song is meant to sound 'clingy' and 'possessive' because it is written about drugs. it is sritten form the drugs point of veiw hence the "I arrived when you were weak, I’ll make you weaker like a child" this shows that she got into drugs when she was weak thinking they'll make her strong but really they make her weaker like a child. <br /> "When its just you and little me" Blatanty pointing out how smallthe drug is compared to her<br /> "Everything is clear and everything is new So you wont be leaving Will you?" the drug has gave her a new expeirience and a clear thinking of life, so it think of no reason why she would quit drugs. And many more!<br />
why's it called Don't Leave Home?
I actually tend to support the "possessive" idea behind the song. When I first heard it, it really hit home, for it reminded me of an ex-boyfriend from high school, who wanted me to stay close to home instead of going far away to college, as I wanted to do (and did).
The song sounded to me like everything he was saying, and everything he might as well have said, for those words are exactly the voice of panic that went through my head at that time in my life. His love was, though loving, possessive, and frightening in its simplicity.
The drug addiction theory piques my interest, and it has a number of merits, but two things bother me about it. First, the line "When your heart is all I need." Drugs control the mind of the addicted person: they don't need to demand the heart. Also, the addiction interpretation doesn't really fit with the music, and Dido doesn't usually put such an incongruity between her lyrics and the music. There's more to a song than the words alone, and though it wouldn't be unusual if it were about drugs, a contented feeling for a song about such dark subject matter would be a pretty big departure from her usual style.
Mattman770: Did Dido say that it was about addiction, or did she just say that it wasn't a love song?
@ElectraInstead she said it was about drugs in one of her concerts..<br /> <br />
@ElectraInstead she said it was about drugs in one of her concerts..<br /> <br /> live at Brixton in 2005
It might be a bit possessive, but if you think right i mean, when having a partner. Its all about this, dunno i still like this song :)
I think the line "I'll make you weaker" refers to causing the second person to become dependent on them so that they are less inclined to leave.
This song is about drug addiction... it's written from the drug's point of view. It's hauntingly obvious... hence the "I’ve been here for just one day You’ll already miss if I go away" and "You won't need other friends anymore". This also explains the "I arrived when you were weak, I'll make you weaker..." You folks were onto the dependency issue, just not the right kind of dependency. The creativity of writing the song from a drug's point of view is brilliant, but ever-so-haunting. This song gives me chills each time I hear it.
"so close the blinds and shut the door.." Ok now this makes so much more sense.
"so close the blinds and shut the door.." Ok now this makes so much more sense.
"so close the blinds and shut the door.." Ok now this makes so much more sense.
"so close the blinds and shut the door.." Ok now this makes so much more sense.
"so close the blinds and shut the door.." Ok now this makes so much more sense.
"so close the blinds and shut the door.." Ok now this makes so much more sense.
While at Dido's concert in San Diego in May, she mentioned the meaning of this song. Didn't tell us who it was about or the full background, but she said that many were mistaken to think it is a love song. It is a song about addiction. Although I think it makes a good obsessed love song as well :)
The drug theory is pretty creepy...whether or not that's the case, looking at it from just a girl-boy perspective, I don't think it's possessive, just really sweet. The "You don't need other friends anymore" isn't a threat, it's a statement to describe what she feels at that moment - at that moment, all she feels like doing is being with him, like children almost, happy. "Your best friend I've come to be" - they've become really close and she doesn't want him to leave, but she's not tying him down or anything, it's just the way they feel, it's sweet.
I dont think it's about a drug addiction at all..it's definitely written about a person. Dido's songs all have that really haunting quality that makes them incredibly touching and sometimes creepy
Its definitely about addiction. Dido clears it up for everyone, and also apologizes if they've used in at their wedding coz it's "definitely the wrong song", before performing the song live at Brixton in 2005.
i've never thought about drug addictions when i listened to this song but it makes so much sense to me. i don't think dido could be THAT possessive of a person...but a drug could be and she knew it... ahhh where'd you find that kind of info, browneyed?
Its definitely about addiction. Dido clears it up for everyone, and also apologizes if they've used in at their wedding coz it's "definitely the wrong song", before performing the song live at Brixton in 2005.