Genesis 3:23
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House up in Clearlake
Where I used to live
Picked the lock on the front door
And felt it give
Touch nothing, move nothing, stand still
Keep my ears open for cars
See how the people here live now
Hope that they're better at it than I was
I used to live here
I used to live here
I used to live here
I used to live here
Pictures up on the mantle
Nobody I know
I stand by the tiny furnace
Where the long shadows grow
Living room to bedroom to kitchen
Familiar and warm
Hours we spent starving within these walls
Sounds of a distant storm
I used to live here
I used to live here
I used to live here
I used to live here
Fight through the ghosts in the hallway
Duck and weave
Stand by the door with my eyes closed
When it's time to leave
Steal home before sunset
Cover up my tracks
Drive home with old dreams of play in my mind
And the wind at my back
Break the lock on my own garden gate
When I get home after dark
Sit looking up at the stars outside
Like teeth in the mouth of a shark
I used to live here
I used to live here
I used to live here
I used to live here
Banter
- This is gonna take a minute. There's probably a fair number of you, not knowing much about demographics but just guessing, whose parents were divorced at some point in their childhood. [Audience cheers] Yeah, man. You know, they did what they had to do. And so when that happens, you move, generally speaking. A few times, it sort of fragments things, and if you are five, as I was when my parents divorced, your memory of your childhood becomes this Edenic thing. Not only Edenic, but very large. My father built a house, or - built a room onto that house when I was like, four, and it was called the front room, and it was this big cathedral ceiling, amazing place. It had a piano in it and a record collection, and I would flip through the records and think so hard about music and, so, I was in SLO a few weeks ago on tour. Last tour I drove past the house. This time I went walking, and walked up - haven't been inside this house since I was 8, I walked up to the door and there was a poster of Snoop and Tupac on it. And said, 'Wow, do I still live here, did something happen?' So I stood there for a brief moment and I knocked, and the college students who were renting it let me in, and it was the tiniest house I had ever set foot in. It used to be a huge auditorium and now it was like. I do this everywhere I've ever lived. (2009-12-01 Webster Hall)
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