The Bathroom Door Was Never Locked (Sibling Love)

Lyrics

[Intro]
I remember the paint was yellow. 
"Sunbeam Yellow," from 1988.
Chipped around the brass knob.
You could see the old white paint underneath.
Like a secret history.

[Verse 1]
And the knob didn't quite catch.
You had to lift and pull, just so.
But there was never a key.
I don't think we ever asked for one.
I'd be brushing my teeth, you'd just walk in.
Mid-sentence about some injustice at school.
The world didn't stop at the threshold.
It just... followed you in.

[Chorus]
The bathroom door was never locked between us.
It wasn't a rule, it wasn't a choice.
It was just a fact of the house, a fact of the weather.
An assumed intimacy.
A shared breath in a small, tiled room.

[Verse 2]
It was your shoebox of letters from Sarah P. under the bed.
It was my diary you picked open with a bobby pin from Mom's drawer.
I read about your first kiss.
You read about how I hated my haircut in seventh grade.
We built a model of the Flyer, the Wright brothers' plane, on the floor.
Argued over the muslin on the wings.
December seventeenth, you said, was the day.
And I believed you.

[Chorus]
The bathroom door was never locked between us.
It wasn't a rule, it wasn't a choice.
It was just a fact of the house, a fact of the weather.
An assumed intimacy.
A shared breath in a small, tiled room.

[Bridge]
Now there are miles and new doors.
Doors with deadbolts. Doors with codes.
Doors I knock on.
But last Tuesday, when the landlord was fixing the sink,
I called you from my own bathroom floor.
And the walls just disappeared.
There is no bond like it, is there?
Knowing someone's history by the scratches on the wood.

[Outro]
The world didn't stop at the threshold.
It still doesn't.
I can still hear the squeak of that hinge.