[Intro: vinyl hiss, pitched-down whisper] (come home... come home...) [808 slide, cowbell triplets] [Verse 1: melodic rap] I'd draw a room for every name A thousand windows sharing one flame Coffee in the kitchen, shoes beside the stairs No one has to vanish just to make room there (oh-oh) Leave the porch light on [Pre-Chorus: rising doubles] But the locks come out when lovers speak They ask which one gets the only key (key-key-key) [Chorus: sung, distorted 808] I wanna build a home for every heart I hold One roof, open doors against the cold No one gets a deed to the warmth in me But they call it love if they own the key (you're mine! mine-mine-mine) Then I wake where love means choosing sides [Drop: chopped pitched vocal, cowbell] (home-home-home) (no-no-no) (ki-ki-key) (let me breathe) (bmm-tss-ka, bmm-tss-ka) [Verse 2: double-time] They want fences round a thing that needs air Make a courtroom out of how much I care If I hold two hands, they count who I betray So I fold my blueprint, hide the dream away (away-way-way) [hard cut] [Bridge: filtered piano, bare vocal] Just enough heat for the ones in the rain But a house without borders scares the street Nobody moves in if the cost is grief [Final Chorus: harmonies, halftime] I wanna build a home for every heart I hold One roof, open doors against the cold But they call it love if they own the key So the house stays drawn where no one can see [Outro: tape-stop, whisper] (come home... in another life)
