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The House That Built Me by Miranda Lambert

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 Adam

But these handprints on the front steps are mine

And up those stairs
In that little back bedroom

Is (1)__________ 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 (2)________ 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 just come in I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the (3)__________ that
Built me

Mama cut out pictures of houses for years

From ‘Better Homes and Garden’ magazines

Plans (4)________ drawn and concrete poured
And 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 its like I’m (5)______________ else
I thought (6)________ 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 (7)________ you can
I got lost in this (8)__________ world and forgot
Who I am

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me
Might (9)__________ healing

Out here its 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

Answers:
(1) where(2) feel(3) house(4) were(5) someone(6) that(7) best(8) whole(9) start