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Same Damn Door is about how foolish it is to pursue success with too much ambition. It was written by founder and lead singer of Dilly, Sophia Spiegel, after her engineer and coproducer, Adam Tucker, told her to write a short, silly song without thinking too hard about it. They were having a conversation about the political landscape of the music industry, how serious everything felt at the time, and how odd it is that people worked so hard to perform and release to just be in meaningful, playful spaces with other people.
It opens with a high BPM groove laid down by Dilly drummer Ben Ehrlich. Slowly, other voices trickle in to accompany Sophia’s angry diatribe. Maxwell Voda creeps in with a soon-to-be roaring bass groove, doubled by a thrumming synth that gets equally as deafening. Levi Schwartzberg joins in with his sultry Rhodes chords, and so does Sophia with her melodious guitar. Mitch Van Laar and Denny Carlson enter the stream of crescendoing noises with snaking, chromatic horn lines, until the whole band drops out for Sophia’s jaded conclusion to her angry rant: “Is a door that leads to heaven just the same damn door that leads to hell?” Thus commences a song that, within the span of just 3 minutes, will make banging your fists, stomping your feet, and maybe even quitting your job all too irresistible.
lyrics
All the doors
All the locked doors
All the silly barricades you bang your little fists on
All the pretty lips so puckered up, you wanna kiss ‘em
Lying to yourself by licking boots you wanna piss on
Desperate for a drag of any kind you want some bliss from
Proving to your parents that you really had a vision
Your vision is a
Is a door, is a door, is a door that leads to
Is a door, is a door, is a door that leads to
Is a door, is a door
Is a door that leads to heaven just the same damn door that leads to hell?
Leads to hell
I see a
I see a stupid
See a stupid, putrid
See a silly cupid smile smeared on your face
I see a hand
See a fidgeting hand
See a hand in your pocket thumbing through pages of your disgrace
See a tight-lipped
See the bite marks on your neck
I see a tight-lipped bite on your pride of place
Words escape from
Words escape greedily from
Words escape from your lips like they could save the human race
That you run, that you run, the race you run could lead to
That you run, that you run, the race you run could lead to
That you run, that you run
The race you run could lead to heaven, but that same damn race could lead to hell
Lead to hell
I kissed someone other than you
His lips pulled my heart outta your embrace, I wonder
Did you feel that moment too?
Our deep horizon split in two and I said goodbye
Now the ocean’s too blue a gloom
The sun too blinding bright a high, I got this –
Feeling inside my bones
That if I follow this thread of loneliness
One day I’ll find my home
A kind of
Reeling from too much time
Spent thinking of the here and now
And left without a cue or rhyme
The same damn, the same damn door
The same damn door, the same damn door that leads to
The same damn door, the same damn door that leads to
The same damn door
The same damn door that leads to heaven’s just the same damn door that leads to hell
Leads to hell
Leads to hell
Leads to hell
Leads to oooooo
credits
released January 5, 2024
MUSIC and LYRICS by SOPHIA SPIEGEL
PRODUCED by BEN EHRLICH, SOPHIA SPIEGEL, and ADAM TUCKER
PERFORMED BY:
DENNY CARLSON on alto saxophone
BEN EHRLICH on drums and auxiliary percussion
LEVI SCHWARTZBERG on keys
SOPHIA SPIEGEL on vocals, guitar, and synth
MITCH VAN LAAR on trumpet
MAXWELL VODA on bass
RECORDED by BEN EHRLICH and ADAM TUCKER
MIXED by BEN EHRLICH, SOPHIA SPIEGEL, and ADAM TUCKER
MASTERED by ADAM TUCKER at SIGNATURETONE RECORDING in MINNEAPOLIS, MN
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