[Intro] [Muted Upright Piano, Bowed Cello Harmonics, Fingerpicked Acoustic] [Key: E Minor, BPM: 74] [Verse 1] [Fingerpicked Acoustic, Low Cello] There's a cupboard full of Tupperware With lids that don't belong A drawer full of takeout menus From restaurants that aren't there anymore There's a medicine cabinet With bottles dated years ago And a brush beside the sink Still holding some of his hair There's a calendar from November Still hanging on the wall Like somebody was coming back To finish crossing it all [Verse 2] [Acoustic and Piano, Sparse Cello] There's a coat behind the bedroom door That still smells a little like him I put my hand inside the pocket And found a little blue Bic lighter There's a box marked Important Full of things that aren't Old warranties and tax returns And a birthday card There's a photograph of somebody Standing beside a lake I know they're family somehow But I don't know the name [Pre-Chorus] [Cello Swells, Piano Notes] Keep Donate Throw away Three words for a whole lifetime And none of them say "Stay" [Chorus] [Full Chamber Ensemble, Fingerpicked Acoustic, Upright Bass] A house full of things nobody wants A lifetime stacked in cardboard boxes Every room says he was here But none of it can tell me who he was You can take the chair You can take the clock You can take the pictures from the walls But you can't take a person home Just because you couldn't throw it all away [Verse 3] [Acoustic Drops, Solo Piano and Cello] I found his favorite Florida State shirt Folded underneath the bed It isn't worth a dollar But I can't throw it out yet So I put it in a box With the things I'm taking home Then I looked at what I'd packed And realized I didn't know I don't want his fishing poles I don't need his old TV I don't want his busted recliner That he passed away in I just want one more afternoon Before the house becomes a house Before the things become just things And I have to carry them out [Bridge] [Near-Silence, Solo Cello, Whispered Piano] They told me to take something Something I'd remember him by So I took a photograph Where he isn't even looking at the camera And a hat hanging on the wall [Chorus] [Full Chamber Ensemble, Slow Crescendo] A house full of things nobody wants A lifetime stacked in cardboard boxes Every room says he was here But none of it can tell me who he was You can take the chair You can take the clock You can take the pictures from the walls But you can't take a person home Just because you couldn't throw it all away [Outro] [Fingerpicked Acoustic, Cello Harmonics, Roomy Piano] [Acoustic Stops, Solo Cello Note]
