No Guest List

No Guest List
No Guest List

Loading dock behind the venue
Laminated pass against my chest
Security knows every new name
Still they don't know who knew me best
Black SUV, backstage hallway
Everybody asks who gets inside
I learned to build a bigger doorway
Then filled it with people I just met tonight

No Guest List for the ones who knew me first
No Guest List, they were there before it worked
I built the door and somehow locked out home
No Guest List, bring my people where I go

My old friend pulls up from the hometown
Guard says his name isn't on file
I see the text twenty minutes later
He is already halfway down the mile
I run outside without the jacket
Catch his car beside the light
He says success got too many fences
If I can't walk through one tonight

I thought access was protection
Till protection changed the gate
I built the door and locked out home
I built the door and locked out home
That laminated pass said it first

No Guest List, open up the hall
No Guest List, I know who took my calls
Before the lights, before the songs
No Guest List, they belong

No Guest List