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 could just come in I swear I'll leave
Won't take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me
人們都說:離開老房子便不能再回去
我隻是想再回家看最後一次
來開門的女士,我想你壓根兒都不認識我吧
但是這房子的前廊封存著我小時的手印兒
樓上後麵的小臥室
是我做作業和第一次學彈吉他的地方
還有一個地方,我打賭你們一定不知道
在那顆槲樹下麵
埋葬著我最心愛的狗狗
隻要我能觸摸到這個地方,感受它
心中的傷痕也許就可以漸漸痊愈
現實中我好像在過別人的生活
如何才能找回自己
如果能讓我再次回來,我發誓我隻待一會兒
我不會從這所老房子裏帶走任何東西
除了記憶
幾年來,老媽總愛從《美好家園》雜誌上
剪下喜歡的房子的圖案
畫好藍本,注下幸福的水泥
一根根釘子、一塊塊木板
老爸盡力使老媽美夢成真
隻要我能觸摸到這個地方,感受它
心中的傷痕也許就可以漸漸痊愈
現實中我好像在過別人的生活
如何才能找回自己
如果能讓我再次回來,我發誓我隻待一會兒
我不會從這所老房子裏帶走任何東西
除了記憶
有一天我離開家、繼續我的生活、盡力打拚
然後迷失在世界裏,忘了我是誰
隻要我能觸摸到這個地方,感受它
心中的傷痕也許就可以漸漸痊愈
現實中我好像在過別人的生活
如何才能找回自己
如果能讓我再次回來,我發誓我隻待一會兒
我不會從這所老房子裏帶走任何東西
除了記憶