That House Inside My Song

[Verse 1]
If I had a house with a door for every name
I’d keep the kettle singing, keep the windows warm
You could bring your whole weather, every bruise and flame
There’d be room at the table when the night rolled on

[Pre-Chorus]
No one taking attendance
No one drawing a line
Just your laugh in the kitchen
Next to hers next to mine

[Chorus]
I’d build a home for everyone who has my heart
A hundred open rooms, no one asked to choose
We’d share the heat and let the separate lives be ours
But love gets called a title, and a title says, “You’re mine”
So I keep that house inside a song I can’t live in

[Verse 2]
You say a heart should have a fence, a single key
As if a welcome could be stolen by the air
I wish the words came easy: stay, and still be free
I wish the world could hold us without keeping score

[Pre-Chorus]
No one taking attendance
No one drawing a line
Just your laugh in the kitchen
Next to hers next to mine

[Chorus]
I’d build a home for everyone who has my heart
A hundred open rooms, no one asked to choose
We’d share the heat and let the separate lives be ours
But love gets called a title, and a title says, “You’re mine”
So I keep that house inside a song I can’t live in

[Bridge]
Maybe every wall would lean
Maybe every roof would part
Still I’d set another place
For the ones who know my heart
But the world keeps naming borders
Where I only see a door
And the dream keeps making room
While the locks keep asking for more

[Final Chorus]
I’d build a home for everyone who has my heart
A hundred open rooms, no one asked to choose
We’d share the heat and let the separate lives be ours
But love gets called a title, and a title says, “You’re mine”
So I keep that house inside a song I can’t live in

[Outro]
I can’t live in
That house inside my song