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John McCutcheon - Room at the Top of the Stair [#] lyrics
There’s a room in our house at the top of the stair It was empty at first, but we knew you’d be there The dog got excited the day that you came Guess he thought you smelled weird and I thought the same The cries and the changing came every night Changing me too ‘til I thought that I might Just stand in the doorway for hours and stare In that room at the top of the stair There’s a room in our house at the top of the stair It was all yours for years, then you had to share Your calm world was burst by this loud little kid Who mimicked and learned everything that you did The games and adventures, the books and the plays The hours of fantasy went on for days And I watched in amazement, this most unlikely pair In that room at the top of the stair There’s a room in our house at the top of the stair It was empty one night, we called everywhere All those demons and danger that lurk in your heart Slipped in the door and tore us apart Till we found you at last in another boy’s house Safe and asleep and forgetting to phone And I lie awake lost in a pure grateful prayer In that room at the top of the stair There’s a room in our house at the top of the stairs Now the door is shut tight And the stereo blares And you mother is worried about your young ears No one has seen your carpet in years And the hole in the wall that you made with your first When the anger of aging was too much to resist The long light of love cast its shadow in there In that room at the top of the stair There’s a room in our house at the top of the stairs Now the bad has clean sheets And the floors are all bare An acceptable place when folks come to stay Your brother and you, boxed and move you away To a duplex apartment just across town I sit on the bed and as the memories rain down There’s a whole in my heart, and it’ll always be there In that room at the top of the stair (X2) |
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