Dear Old House

dear old house that I grew up in I know that I’ll leave you any day dear old house that I grew up in can't you find a way to make em stay? and all the girls I went to school with walked downtown with all the cool kids I was staked out in your cellar making friends with dead umbrella and every creak of every floorboard tells the story of the girl I stuck inside and if they move away I’ll have no place to … hide dear old house that I grew up in I’ve never really been in love you took my heart when I was a child noises wrapped around my little body like a winter glove you're just a random set of objects in a town that's filled with sadness in the armpit of the world you're chopped down trees and rotting soil and if I wanted to I’d keep you I’d fill you up and heat you with the market how it is, Amanda well you know, the price of ... oil Goodbye stairs, and goodbye stars on painted walls at home attic door, and banister, I’ll miss you most of all you were supposed to keep me safe, this wasn't supposed to end does it sound ridiculous, to call you my best friend? dear old house that I grew up in I know I haven't visited that much but, every lifeless hotel and apartment I walk into just reminds me of the doorknobs that I want to touch I won't miss you, when they sell you to some evil yuppie couple with the child who'll put Miley Cyrus posters in my bedroom I am a native of the north I am a rockstar on the road I am now permanently located in each place I am known but it doesn't feel like anywhere when you can't go back... home dear old house that I grew up in I know it isn't your fault this panned out, please don't take it personally, PS, Tell the evil yuppie couple When I'm rich, I'll buy you back.