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The House That Built Me by Miranda Lambert

I know (1)________ 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 (2)__________ stairs
In that little back bedroom

Is (3)__________ I did my homework
And I learned to (4)________ 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 (5)________ place or (6)________ it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here its (7)________ I’m someone else
I thought that (8)__________ I could (9)________ myself

If I could just (10)________ in I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that
Built me

Mama cut out pictures of (11)____________ for years

From ‘Better Homes and Garden’ magazines

Plans were drawn and (12)________________ poured
And nail by (13)________ and board by board

Daddy (14)________ (15)________ to mama’s dream

I thought if I could touch this place or (16)________ it

This brokenness inside me
Might start healing

Out (17)________ its like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could (18)________ myself

If I could (19)________ (20)________ in I (21)__________ I’ll leave

Won’t take (22)______________ but a memory

From the (23)__________ that
Built me

You leave home
You (24)________ on
And you do the best you can
I got lost in (25)________ whole 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 (26)________ its like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I (27)__________ walk around I swear I’ll leave
Won’t (28)________ nothing but a memory
From the house that
Built me

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