[Verse 1]
Front gate leans like it's listening
Porch boards bow under my feet
Paint flakes off in tired curls
One eye of the house still lit for me
Key turns slow in a rusted throat
Hinge sighs
Long and low
Dust dances in the hallway air
Like it’s glad I came alone
[Chorus]
This is the house that breathes
In the walls
In the floor
In me
Every room keeping score
Of every footstep
Every key
This is the house that breathes
Saying stay
Saying leave
In between
I am not the first to freeze
In the mouth of the house that breathes
[Verse 2]
Family frames all faced to the side
Glass cracked right through their smiles
Names carved light in the closet door
Under mine
A newer line
Radio flicks on
[whispered vocals] no station
Still a voice hums soft and plain
Someone hums my favorite tune
From a room I never named
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Do you miss them?
Or just hate the quiet?
I lay down on the hallway rug
Feel heartbeat in the wires
[low vocal register] If I promise
To remember what you keep
Will you let me walk back out
Or move into me when I leave?
[Chorus]