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This House

There’s a road that wanders gently through an ordinary town
Lined with sturdy, handsome houses, but for one that’s been run down
That’s the one that I turn into, the one I know so well
Where I spent some time in heaven and some more in hell

And as I walk through the kitchen door to take a final look
Memories turn inside my mind like pages in a book
And the story that they tell me is hard to comprehend
Wasn’t this the place we vowed to stay until the end?

This house was once our refuge
This house became our home
This house was our shelter from the storm
This house held something deeper than our sorrow and our pride
This house had love inside

When we started out we did the things that people often do
We kept up with the Joneses, painted walls and fences too
Until the storm came in and washed us on this foreign shore
And suddenly it did not seem to matter anymore

This house was all our meaning
This house was all we knew
This house was everything that we held true
This house was all that we believed and could not be denied
This house had love inside

But as the storm wore on we found ourselves distracted
By the painful truth of trying to survive
And so the grass grew long and windows once so clear
No longer let the light into our broken lives

Walking through the empty rooms with walls cracked and bare
I smile as I remember all the joy that we found there
And so now the story’s ended, a new one soon to find
But I always will remember what we left behind

This house cared for the wounded, it’s where we learned to heal
This house was where we found out what was real
We faced a world of worry, but we swept it all aside
This house had love inside