House Where Nobody Lives

Waits Tom

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1. There's a house on my block that's abandoned and cold
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   Folks moved out of it a long time ago
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   And they took all their things, and they never came back
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   Looks like its haunted, with the windows all cracked
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   And everyone calls it the house
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   The house where nobody lives      

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R: Once it held laughter, once it held dreams
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   Did they throw it away, do they know what it means
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   Did someone's heart break,
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   Or did someone do somebody wrong  
   
2. Well the paint was all cracked, it was peeled off the wood
   Papers were stacked on the porch where I stood
   And the weeds had grown up just as high as the door
   There were birds in the chimney and an old chest of drawers
   Looks like no-one will ever come back to
   The house where nobody lives

R: Once it held laughter...

3. So if you find someone, someone to have, someone to hold
   Don't trade it for silver, don't trade it for gold
   `Cos I have all of life's treasures, and they're fine and they're good
   They remind me that houses are just made of wood
   What makes a house grand oh it aint the roof or the doors
   If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure
   Without love it aint nothin' but a house
   
   A house where nobody lives
   Without love it aint nothin' but a house
   A house where nobody lives