[1] A cardboard box sat by the door With my name written on the side And through the kitchen window light I could see that you had cried There were pictures off the living room wall Just pale squares left behind Twenty years reduced to empty nails And dust outlines in time [P] You were standing by the counter there With your wedding ring in hand... [C] And that's how a broken home begins Not with shouting, not with fists Just two tired hearts that quit believing They could ever love like this No, a broken home ain't broken in a day It's a slow goodbye in slow motion Till all that's left is two people standing In the ruins of devotion (A broken home) [2] You picked every color on those walls I hung every door and frame Back then we swore these rooms would hold A lifetime in our names Then the babies came and life moved fast And the years got hard somehow We stopped talking about dreams at night Only talked about the bills for now [P] But life kept taking more than giving And tomorrow never came... [C] And that's how a broken home begins Not with shouting, not with fists Just two tired hearts that quit believing They could ever love like this It's the silence at the supper table It's the distance in the bed It's a hundred thousand little cracks Before the whole thing finally bends [B] I didn't have the words you needed Just tears I couldn't hide So I held you close and prayed to God As something in me died... [FC] That's what a broken home looks like It's a front porch built for four With only one chair occupied It's a house still standing somehow While everything inside has died [Outro] (A broken home) (A broken home) A broken home. [End]
