TheHouseThatBuiltMe

The House That Built Me - The Country Dance Kings

Written by：Thomas Stevenson Douglas/James Allen Shamblin II

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 madam

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

And 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 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 could walk around I swear I'll leave

Won't take nothing but a memory

From the house that built me