Who's to say, who's to know
Where the ship is going to blow
Taking time beneath the trees
State of mind, state of ease
Open The Door has some of the same quality, and the sound of Roger Hodgson’s voice takes me right back to that time in an instant, making me feel like a grown-up and a child at the same time. The artwork on Open The Door shows a man entering the passage, and a child emerging from it. It's difficult to dislike Open The Door due to strong songwriting but I still feel slight underwhelmed by the low key arrangements that Roger Hodgson uses all throughout the album. The long list of guest and session musicians does little to remedy this problem. Open the Door is the fourth album by Roger Hodgson, released by Epic Records and his third and most recent studio one (and his first studio release since 1987). Celine Dion RCA Records Columbia Records Tammy Wynette Fiona Apple. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2000 CD release of Open The Door on Discogs.
Easy come, easy go
What a life, what a show,
Caught in old familiar ways
Has our love gone astray?...
Gone away?...gone away?...
Open the door ... Open the door
Open the door, I want to be with you
Open the door, I want to play with you
Do what you want to, be who you want to be
'Cause I don't care what you say
or what you do to me
I'm having trouble going a whole day without you
Don't want to live if it's a lifetime without you
Come on give me some sing I can see
Come on give me now, show me something
Open the door, I want to be with you
Open the door, I want to play with you
Open the door, I want to dream with you
Open the door, I want to stay with you now...
Roger Hodgson Open The Door Rarity Movie
Right, right on, easy come, easy come
-easy go-easy come
And I know, yes I know
that I'm wanting the world to be one
But we take as we please and we can't see the
wood for the trees
But I know, yes I know when I open the door I'll
Be home
I want to go home, I want to go home...
Right, right on, easy come,
Easy come-easy go-easy come
And I know, yes I know
That I'm wanting theworld to be one
But we take as we please
And we can't see
The wood for the trees
But I know, yes I know
When I open the door I'll be free
I want to go free, I want to go home...
Open the door, I want to be with you
Open the door, I want to play with you
Open the door, I want to dream with you
Open the door, I want to stay with you now...
Do what you want to, be who you want to be
Cause I don't care what you say or what you do to
me
I'm having trouble going a whole day without you
Don't want to live if it's a lifetime without you
Come on give me some sing I can see
Come on give me now, show me something
Is Roger Hodgson A Christian
Who's to say, who's to now...
Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny
Best known for his stint fronting art pop hitmakers Supertramp, Roger Hodgson was born in Portsmouth, England, on March 21, 1950. While growing up in Oxford, Hodgson started playing guitar before he was a teenager, and was soon writing songs while at boarding school. He began recording during the late '60s, issuing a single in 1969 as part of the session band Argosy with Elton John (then known as Reg Dwight).
Also in 1969, he co-founded Supertramp, serving with Rick Davies as songwriter and vocalist for 14 years. Originally funded by Dutch millionaire Stanley August Mieseages, the group lost his patronage after their first two albums failed to generate much interest. However, 1974's Crime of the Century was a major hit, launching the radio favorites 'Dreamer' and 'Bloody Well Right.' After scoring an international hit in 1977 with 'Give a Little Bit' from the album Even in the Quietest Moments..., Supertramp reached their commercial peak with 1979's chart-topping Breakfast in America, which yielded the smashes 'Take the Long Way Home,' 'The Logical Song,' and 'Goodbye, Stranger' on its way to selling 20 million copies. In the wake of 1982's ...Famous Last Words..., Hodgson left Supertramp and relocated to Northern California to focus on his family, eventually issuing his solo debut, In the Eye of the Storm, in 1984. Within days of issuing the follow-up, 1987's Hai Hai, Hodgson fell and broke both of his wrists; the accident kept him out of action for several years, and he did not resurface until he co-wrote several songs on Yes' 1994 album, Talk. A live solo album, Rites of Passage, followed three years later and featured Hodgson collaborating with son Andrew. Open the Door, his first new studio effort in 13 years, appeared in the spring of 2000. The album received positive responses from critics and fans alike, and Hodgson was subsequently recruited to tour with Ringo Starr as a member of the All-Starr Band. He continued to play solo shows as well, releasing a DVD of one such performance, Take the Long Way Home: Live in Montreal, in summer 2006. (The DVD would go multi-platinum in Canada and gold in France and Germany.) Classics Live, a collection of tracks from a solo tour of the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Europe, and Canada, arrived in 2010. Hodgson continued to tour worldwide in many formats including in a duo, with a band, and with a symphony orchestra. In 2012, he received a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Ministry of Culture.