Open House (Album Version)-Steve Forbert

[ti:Open House] [ar:Steve Forbert] [al:Rocking Horse Head] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Open House (Album Version) - Steve Forbert [00:02.54]Open house now for your fading heart [00:06.12] [00:08.99]Tell your ghost it's time to hide; [00:12.45] [00:15.40]Strangers won't know [00:16.86]When to stop and start [00:19.53] [00:22.06]Once they've fin'ly got inside [00:24.70] [00:25.32]Spir'ling staircase [00:26.88]Toward your dusty mind [00:28.60] [00:31.53]With crates and boxes and [00:33.25]Bags and trunks; [00:35.12] [00:38.30]No one cares [00:39.47]What tender dreams they'll find [00:43.11] [00:45.14]All they'll see up there is junk [00:48.36]With silver dollars from a ragdoll's ear [00:52.47] [00:54.99]And merc'ry dimes for buttons too [00:58.40] [01:01.76]And flutes and whistles only kids can hear [01:06.22] [01:08.59]And peacock feathers green and blue [01:11.32] [01:12.07]Deep depression in a walnut grain [01:15.37] [01:18.66]Afternoons on rainy days; [01:22.53] [01:25.19]Once it stacked up well [01:26.82]In both your brains [01:29.23] [01:31.28]And now it's all some purple haze [01:34.70]With vandals picking [01:36.76]Locks and breaking doors [01:39.05] [01:41.82]And smashing keepsakes all around; [01:45.52] [01:48.45]Souvenirs of love and foreign shores [01:53.24] [01:54.76]And scrapbook pages all unbound [01:57.79] [01:58.65]It's open house [01:59.38]Now for your fading heart [02:02.59] [02:05.41]Tell your ghost it's time to hide; [02:08.86] [02:11.76]Strangers won't know [02:13.52]When to stop and start [02:16.09] [02:18.60]Once they've fin'ly got inside [02:23.02] [02:24.12]Open House - Steve Forbert