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The House That Built Me by Miranda Lambert

I know (1)________ say
You can't go (2)________ again

I just had to come back one last time

Ma’am I know
You don’t (3)________ me (4)________ Adam

But (5)__________ (6)____________________ on the (7)__________ steps are mine

And up those stairs
In that (8)____________ 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 (9)________________ dog is buried in the yard

I thought if I could touch (10)________ (11)__________ or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here its like I’m (12)______________ else
I thought that maybe I could find myself

If I (13)__________ just come in I (14)__________ I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that
Built me

Mama cut out pictures of (15)____________ for years

From ‘Better (16)__________ and Garden’ magazines

Plans were (17)__________ and concrete poured
And (18)________ by nail and board by board

Daddy gave life to mama’s dream

I thought if I (19)__________ touch this place or feel it

This brokenness inside me
Might start healing

Out here its like I’m someone else
I (20)______________ that maybe I could find myself

If I could just come in I (21)__________ I’ll leave

Won’t (22)________ 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 whole (23)__________ and forgot
Who I am

I (24)______________ if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me
Might start healing

Out here its like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I could walk around I (25)__________ I’ll leave
Won’t (26)________ nothing but a memory
From the house that
Built me

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