[Intro: motorik drums start alone, bass locks in, organ drone] [Hook: raspy older male MC, grinning] Fire took the house, so I don't owe it a thing I travel light, I travel light, I'm the only thing I bring Fire took the house, so I don't owe it a thing I travel light, I travel light, I'm the only thing I bring [Verse 1: raspy older male MC, fast and loose] Sixty-one, retired, and the smoke detector chirped for a year I kept sayin' I'd change the battery. I'm sayin' it right here Tuesday, half past one, the kitchen went up like a torch I went out the bedroom window barefoot, landed on the porch Thirty years of tax returns, burned. Come find me, tax man Lost the recliner that ate my spine and the lawn I hated, and Lost the ridin' mower and the fight about the fence line Lost the treadmill I hung shirts on, lost the shirts. I'm fine Lost the junk drawer, all them keys to doors I never found Lost the gutters that I never cleaned, the mortgage and the ground Insurance man came out in a necktie and a frown Said, "Sir, you lost everything." I said, "Sir, write that shit down" [Hook: raspy older male MC] Fire took the house, so I don't owe it a thing I travel light, I travel light, I'm the only thing I bring [Verse 2: harder, organ swells] I lost Delia back in nineteen, so the fire showed up late Took her dresses and her teacups, but I'd already lost the weight Grief's the heaviest thing I own, and grief is fireproof So I strapped it on my back, and now I'm stronger than the roof Now I own a duffel bag, a toothbrush and a library card Two pairs of pants, one decent coat, a photo of her in the yard Kids said, "Pop, come stay with us." I said, "Save me the room" Never seen the ocean, and I'm sixty-one. I'll be there soon [Flow switch: triplet flow, bass doubles, drums never stop] No mortgage, no mower, no gutters, no lawn No closet full of shoes I paid for and never had on No attic, no basement, no box of old cables No mail for the man who lived there before, no labels Bus ticket west and a window seat and a sandwich You got a house full of somethin', I got nothin' to manage [Guitar solo: fuzz guitar rides the motorik beat] [Verse 3: raspy older male MC, wind in it] Everybody's house burns somehow, the bank, the years, the bottle Mine just did it all at once, so I'm ridin' it full throttle You're up at night insurin' things that's insurin' you stay put I'm up at dawn in the desert with the sand all on my foot I don't miss a thing I owned. I miss her, and she rides along Light enough to carry, heavy enough to keep me strong [Final Hook: raspy older male MC, shouting it] Fire took the house, and it handed me the spark I travel light, I travel light, I'm the light in the dark Fire took the house, so I don't owe it a thing I travel light, I travel light, and the light is what I bring [End]
