dimanche, août 08, 2010

Miranda Lambert - The House That Built Me



I know they say you can’t go home again
I just had to come back one last time
Ma’am I know you don’t know me from Adam
But these handprints on the front steps are mine

Up those stairs in that little back bedroom
Is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar
I bet you didn’t know under that live oak
My favorite dog is buried in the yard

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here it’s like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I could just come in I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me

Mama cut out pictures of houses for years
From Better Homes and Gardens magazine
Plans were drawn and concrete poured
Nail by nail and board by board
Daddy gave life to mama’s dream

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here it’s like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I could just come in I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me

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

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here it’s like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I walk around I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me

Wow, you're 5

I didn't realise that you have already turned 5 in March. If you were my child, you would have grown so much. How time flies. I'm sorry I didn't come in as often anymore to tell you my life. I want you to know that you still mean a lot to me, it is just that I am so lost in this race. I just need to finish this race and ... what? I start a new one all over again. This life that is building me, I hope it heals me. To the house that built me, I miss you. Life was so much simpler back then. To the child that I never found, I'm sorry this is not the house that would build you. I know you'd be happy here, I hope you are happy elsewhere.