Don't Leave Home

"Don't Leave Home"
Single by Dido
from the album Life for Rent
B-side "Stoned" (Deep Dish Remix)
Released 12 April 2004
Format CD single
Genre Pop, trip hop
Length 3:47
Label BMG
Songwriter(s) Dido Armstrong
Rollo Armstrong
Producer(s) Dido Armstrong
Rollo Armstrong
Mike Hedges
Dido singles chronology
"Life For Rent"
(2003)		 "Don't Leave Home"
(2004)		 "Sand in My Shoes"
(2004)

"Don't Leave Home" is the third single released in the UK from Dido's second album, Life for Rent. It was officially released on 12 April 2004. Even though it didn't go further than number 25 on the UK Singles Chart, it stayed in the charts for nine weeks; however, the song was a radio hit, peaking at number one on the official airplay chart in early 2004.

Background

"Don't Leave Home" deals with drug addiction. It is written and sung from the unusual point of view of the drug singing to the person who is addicted to it. It was originally a demo recorded for her 1999 album No Angel that was instead included on the 2003 album, Life for Rent. It was written and produced by Dido Armstrong and her brother Rollo Armstrong. The song is set in common time composed in a moderate tempo of 80 beats per minute,[1] written in F♯ Major with a vocal range from the tone of F♯4 to the note of C♯6.[1]

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.

Track listing

UK CD single

  1. "Don't Leave Home" – 3:47
  2. "Stoned" (Deep Dish Stoner Remix Edit) – 4:15

Japanese CD single

  1. "Don't Leave Home" – 3:47
  2. "Stoned" (Deep Dish Stoner Remix Edit) – 4:15
  3. "Don't Leave Home" (Recall Mix) – 4:03
  4. "Don't Leave Home" (Video) – 3:50

Stoned

The B-side, "Stoned", was released as a promotional single from Life for Rent. The song tells the story of an unwinding relationship, clouded through drugs, as the title suggests. "Stoned" was remixed by Deep Dish as "Stoned (Deep Dish Remix)"; this version peaked at number-one on the Hot Dance Club Songs.[2][3]

Credits and personnel

Charts

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Don't Leave Home – Dido Digital Sheet Music (Digital Download)". MusicNotes.com. Alfred Publishing Co. Inc.
  2. 1 2 "Billboard charts". Allmusic. 2004. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
  3. 1 2 3 "Dido Music News & Info". Billboard. Retrieved 2010-04-26.
  4. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Dido – Don't Leave Home" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Dido – Don't Leave Home" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Dido – Don't Leave Home" (in French). Ultratip. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "Brazil" (PDF). ABPD. October 6, 2001. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Dido – Don't Leave Home". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  9. ↑ "Chart Track: Week 16, 2004". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  10. ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 21, 2004" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40 Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  11. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Dido – Don't Leave Home" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  12. ↑ "Nielsen Music Control". Archived from the original on 2007-10-27.
  13. ↑ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  14. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Dido – Don't Leave Home". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  15. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  16. ↑ "allmusic ((( Life for Rent > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles )))". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
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