Don't Leave Home

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"Don't Leave Home"
Dido - Don't Leave Home.jpg
Single by Dido
from the album Life for Rent
B-side "Stoned" (Deep Dish remix)
Released10 April 2004 (2004-04-10)
Studio
Length3:47
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Dido singles chronology
"Life for Rent"
(2003)
"Don't Leave Home"
(2004)
"Sand in My Shoes"
(2004)
Music video
"Don't Leave Home" on YouTube

"Don't Leave Home" is the third single released from English singer Dido's second album, Life for Rent (2003). The song was first released as a digital download in various territories on 10 April 2004 before its physical UK release two days later. "Don't Leave Home" peaked at number 25 on the UK Singles Chart and charted for nine weeks. A remix of the song's B-side, "Stoned", by American electronic music duo Deep Dish topped the US Billboard Dance Club Play chart.

Contents

Background

"Don't Leave Home" deals with drug addiction. It is written and sung from the point of view of the drug singing to the person who is addicted to it. [1] It was originally a demo recorded for her 1999 album No Angel , but it was included instead on the 2003 album, Life for Rent. It was written and produced by Dido Armstrong and her brother Rollo Armstrong. [2] The song is set in common time composed in a moderate tempo of 80 beats per minute, [3] written in F major with a vocal range from the tone of F4 to the note of C6. [3]

Music video

The Jake Nava-directed music video for "Don't Leave Home" starts with the singer driving on a desert road as it gets dark. Suddenly, she finds herself in front of a forest. Dido leaves the car, drops her suitcase on the ground, and enters the forest. Some of the themes and scenery imply drug addiction, like the hazy affects, the forest filled with mushrooms and hallucinations of spiders and snakes. She leaves the forest and comes across a huge rock-like cliff by the ocean. She sings calmly by the cliff before jumping into the ocean and finds herself on a wide strand with white sand singing out to the ocean. The video ends with the car driving on with broken white lines. The video was shot in Cape Town, South Africa.

"Stoned"

The B-side of the "Don't Leave Home" single, "Stoned", was released as a promotional single from Life for Rent. The song tells the story of an unwinding relationship, clouded through drugs. "Stoned" was remixed by Deep Dish; this version peaked at number one on the US Billboard Dance Club Play chart on the week dated 24 January 2004. [4] At the end of 2004, Billboard ranked the remix as the second-most-successful dance club track of year. [5]

Track listings

UK CD single [6]

  1. "Don't Leave Home"
  2. "Stoned" (Deep Dish Stoner remix edit)

European CD single [7]

  1. "Don't Leave Home" – 3:48
  2. "Stoned" (Deep Dish remix edit) – 4:00
  3. "Don't Leave Home" (video with lyrics)

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the "Don't Leave Home" UK CD single liner notes and the Life for Rent booklet. [6] [8]

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref(s).
Various10 April 2004 Digital download [27] [28] [29]
United Kingdom12 April 2004CD [30]
United States19 April 2004 Hot adult contemporary radio [31]
Sweden3 May 2004CD [32]

See also

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