[Intro - spoken, almost whispered, door closing behind him] Three twenty. I ain't got nowhere else to be, so I came home. Turned the light on in the kitchen and I ain't never seen this place so loud. [Verse 1] Your hair tie still on the doorknob Where you always left it Coffee cup in the sink with your lipstick on the rim I ain't washed it I know how that sound But if I wash it, it's gone And I ain't ready for it to be gone [Pre-Chorus] I keep tellin' myself It's just a house, it's just a house But I can't walk ten feet Without you standin' in it [Chorus] Every room Every room got you in it Bathroom, hallway, top of the stairs Every room I can't turn a corner in my own house Without findin' somethin' you touched And it stops me where I stand Every room [Verse 2] Your mail still comin' here I stacked it on the table, didn't open none Your robe on the back of the closet door And I know it's just cotton But I put my face in it last night Like a grown man Like somebody who don't know better [Pre-Chorus] I keep tellin' myself Tomorrow I'ma box it up, tomorrow But tomorrow been comin' for three hours And I ain't moved a thing [Chorus - stacks enter, four parts] Every room Every room got you in it Bathroom, hallway, top of the stairs Every room I can't turn a corner in my own house Without findin' somethin' you touched And it stops me where I stand Every room [Bridge - half time, drop to one Rhodes, spoken into falsetto] You know what got me? Not the pictures. Not the bed. It was one earring. One. In the couch cushion, been down there since Easter. And I sat on that floor for twenty minutes holdin' one earring like it was gon' answer me. (sung, falsetto) This house don't work without you in it This house don't work This house don't work [Final Chorus - modulate up a half step to A major, drums and full stacks in] Every room Every room got you in it Bathroom, hallway, top of the stairs Every room And I ain't askin' you to come save me I'm just tellin' you what it's like When the sun ain't up and you ain't here Every room [Vamp - stacks, ad-libs on top, runs allowed here only] Every room, every room Ooh, every room I left the porch light on I left the porch light on Every room, baby Ain't nothin' in this house but you And you ain't even in this house Ooh [Outro - spoken, over Rhodes, drums out] ...I'ma leave the light on anyway.
