I get a picture of a people's fear of what was to come after September 11 2001, when Bush declared 'war' on terror, from the chorus at least. People turning to their friends, and the people they love, and banding together ('I'm banging on your door, so come on and let me in; I need a place to hide, need a place to hide before the storm begins' - 'the storm' is the war at home that some people might have expected) for some sort of sense of security when the war comes. As it happens, it wasn't nearly the war that people may have expected after Bush labelled 9/11 as an 'attack' on the US and blamed a specific country.
I get a picture of a people's fear of what was to come after September 11 2001, when Bush declared 'war' on terror, from the chorus at least. People turning to their friends, and the people they love, and banding together ('I'm banging on your door, so come on and let me in; I need a place to hide, need a place to hide before the storm begins' - 'the storm' is the war at home that some people might have expected) for some sort of sense of security when the war comes. As it happens, it wasn't nearly the war that people may have expected after Bush labelled 9/11 as an 'attack' on the US and blamed a specific country.