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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 (1)____________________ on the front steps are mine

And up those stairs
In (2)________ little back bedroom

Is where I did my homework
And I (3)______________ to play guitar

And I bet you didn’t know
Under that (4)________ oak
My (5)________________ dog is buried in the yard

I thought if I (6)__________ (7)__________ this place or feel it
This brokenness (8)____________ me (9)__________ start healing
Out here its like I’m someone else
I thought that (10)__________ I could find myself

If I could just come in I (11)__________ I’ll leave
Won’t take (12)______________ but a memory
From the house that
Built me

Mama cut out pictures of houses for years

From ‘Better (13)__________ and Garden’ magazines

Plans were drawn and concrete poured
And nail by nail and board by board

Daddy gave life to mama’s dream

I thought if I (14)__________ touch this place or feel it

This brokenness inside me
Might (15)__________ healing

Out here its like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself

If I could just come in I (16)__________ I’ll leave

Won’t take nothing but a memory

From the (17)__________ that
Built me

You leave home
You (18)________ on
And you do the best you can
I got lost in (19)________ whole world and forgot
Who I am

I thought if I (20)__________ touch this place or feel it
This brokenness (21)____________ me
Might start healing

Out here its (22)________ I’m (23)______________ else
I (24)______________ that maybe I could find myself
If I could (25)________ around I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take (26)______________ but a memory
From the house that
Built me

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