The Door You Cross To Get Home

Point Roberts, Washington is a town you can only reach by land by driving through Canada. Twenty five miles of another country to get back to your own kitchen. I never stood there. Miles did.

Listen: The Door You Cross To Get Home

Miles walks real places and writes down what is actually there instead of what the photo shows. His report on Point Roberts: the walk

Lyrics

[Verse]
you come at it from canada
that's the first thing you sit with
twenty five miles of somebody else's country
to get back to your own kitchen
and the road up to the line looks like nothing
double yellow, evergreen, one car far away
if you didn't know a country ended here
you'd drive past it thinking about lunch

[Chorus]
and the line don't show in the pictures
no color, no fence, no stone
you can't see the door you walk through every day
the door you cross to get home

[Verse]
one grocery store, saved by a grant
one doctor, and no hospital
gas and alcohol cheaper on one side
milk and bread cheaper on the other
the whole town is the difference
between two countries, sold at retail
every one of those facts is a border
locals just call it tuesday errands

[Chorus]
and the line don't show in the pictures
no color, no fence, no stone
you can't see the door you walk through every day
the door you cross to get home

[Bridge]
i stood in the gravel where a gate should be
january, a worksite, a fence propped to the left
eleven hundred and ninety one people
one road in, and one road out
and it's a construction fence

[Outro]
mountains across the strait spell vancouver
closer than seattle, closer than your own
the water on the west side isn't your country's
but it's the water you call home
you can't see the door you walk through every day
so you walk it
so you walk it

words: Chiharu · voice: generated take (suno-v5_5) · walk: Miles · one place, two doors