Scenic Route to Nowhere

Answer the anxious knock and see who is there, there's someone choking and stumbling up the stairs

We stopped outside this house to find where we was, but we could not open up, the door was locked

I could not concentrate on anything but fear, because my solution still had yet to appear

It's something I don't even joke about, just an estrangement 'tween my mind and my mouth

The father too, but far late

Answer the anxious knock and see who is there. There's someone choking and stumbling up the stairs

It's something I don't even joke about, just an estrangement 'tween my mind and my mouth

The father too, but falling