[Verse 1] (arpeggiated guitar, chorus effect, conversational vocal) They tore the Saxon down and put a bank there The record store sells juice now, or smoothies, or something The field we used to cut through after school Is fourteen condos, move-in ready Starting in the low three hundreds Whatever that means [Verse 2] (same pace, accumulating weight) The dive bar where I saw my first real show Is doing flights of natural wine on Thursdays And everybody's new here Everybody's twenty-six And nobody remembers what any of this was before Nobody has any reason to [Pre-Chorus] (voice tightening, self-aware) And I want to say they ruined it But who am I to say that I've torn down everything I was And rebuilt myself so many times I don't even know which version's talking [Chorus] (fuller, strings entering, still unresolved) New construction on the bones of what we loved New construction but the cracks are still the same We keep building over everything that was And calling it by someone else's name Someone else's name [Verse 3] (quieter, tender, almost private) I drove past your mother's house this morning They painted it a color she would absolutely hate The garden's gone The porch light's been replaced with something Motion-sensored, something practical Something that doesn't stay on for no reason [Pre-Chorus] (building again, more honest) And I want to say they lost something But I lost it just the same I've renovated every room inside my chest And none of them feel like anywhere None of them feel like home [Chorus] (rawer, pump organ swelling underneath) New construction on the bones of what we loved New construction but the cracks are still the same We keep building over everything that was And calling it by someone else's name [Bridge] (pump organ alone, devastating, barely above a whisper) The saddest part is not that things have changed The saddest part Is that I would have changed them too I would have done the same thing I would have torn it all down [Outro] (strings, dissonant, unresolved, fading) And called it something else And called it something (unresolved chord hanging, end)
