The House That Built Me

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I know they say you can’t go home a-gain
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I  just had to come back one last time
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Ma’am I know you don’t know me from Ad-am
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But these hand-prints on the front steps are mine
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Up those stairs in that lit-tle back bed-room
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Is where I did my home-work and I learned to play gui-tar
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And I bet you did-n’t know un-der that live oak
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My fav-‘rite dog is bur-ied in the yard


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[I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
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This bro-ken-ness in-side me might start heal-in’
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Ou-t here it’s like I’m some-one else
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I thought that may-be I could find my-self]
 
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If I could just come in I swear I'll leave
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Won't take noth-in’ but a mem-or-y
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From the house that bu-ilt me

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Ma-ma cut out pic-tures of hous-es for years
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From Bet-ter Homes and Gard-en mag-a-zine
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Plans were drawn and con-cr-ete poured
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Nail by nail and board by board
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Dad-dy gave life to ma-ma’s dream


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If I could just come in I swear I'll leave
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Won't take noth-in’ but a mem-or-y
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From the house that bu-ilt me

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You leave home you move on and you do the best you can
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I got lost in this old world and for-got who I am


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If I could walk a-round I swear I’ll leave
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Won't take noth-in’ but a mem-or-y
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From the house that built me