Two Doors

This one hates that one.

That one hates this one.

You get to pick a colour

and the colour picks your friends.

And every question in the country

gets translated into two,

and if your answer isn't one of them

then you don't have an answer.

Nobody asked you what the questions were.

That part was over long before —

Two doors! (two doors!)

Both of them installed by the same hand.

Two doors! (two doors!)

And they're arguing about the paint.

You can fight about the doorway

for your entire life —

two doors. (two doors)

This side says that side's the end of the nation. (left)

That side says this side, identical quotation. (right)

Both of them fluent in righteous frustration, (left)

both of them selling you participation. (right)

And the anger is real — I'm not calling it fake,

real people, real losses, real things at stake,

it's just both of those doors let you out in one hall,

and nobody, not once, got a vote on the wall.

So ask the question underneath the question.

Ask who built the frame —

Two doors! (two doors!)

And a wall you're not supposed to see.

Two doors! (two doors!)

And a room you never chose.

You can win it, really win it,

and wake up in the same hallway —

two doors. (two doors)

Listen. Listen.

Same riff. Same riff.

Both sides. Same riff.

TWO DOORS! (two doors!)

I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO SWITCH!

TWO DOORS! (two doors!)

I'M ASKING WHO BUILT THE CORRIDOR!

Two doors. (two doors)

And whoever built it

would love us to stay busy at the handles.

Find the wall.