Home - Ellis Paul

That night the walls were speaking

The pipes inside them, creaking

Told the secret that was rising in the halls

And you lay beside me sleeping

With the dreams that you were keeping

The smoke was in the stairwell outside the wall

We had moved in just November

The first night, remember

We lit a candle

Laid a mattress on the floor

And we toasted to our savings

To adulthood

To behaving

To this house with drafty windows

Creaking doors

Home

Is the woman across the table

Home

Is dreaming in my sheets

Home

Home

This house is just an address

You’re my home

So we stood like statues staring

While the sirens came in blaring

The Johnsons brought us coffee

For the cold

And somewhere I heard some singing

It was my radio alarm clock ringing

With a wakeup call singing to my soul

I can’t believe I’m thanking Jesus

As I watch my roof come down

But I can put back all the pieces

As long as you’re around