This House Lyrics

They built the new estate

On the fields at the edge of the forest

Four hundred brand new and affordable homes

Up near the radio tower

Show homes showed us what our lives could be

Then two by two by two by two

The people found their plots

We were the first ones to move in

The number on the door is how you tell it's yours

Every neighbours home

You know your way around

The pictures might be different

But the walls are all the same

Seventeen and needing room to breathe

The last one to appreciate it

I'm the first one in this house to leave

This house is smaller now

This house is smaller now

So you start brand new lives.

Everything together

Both of you

All the time

Until the shadows on the scan appeared

And the days you took as given

Quickly turn into a gift

Then the doctor sat us both down to explain

There's nothing they can do now

He's not coming to this house again

This house is shrinking now

This house is shrinking now

This house is shrinking now

So now it's only you

Do you really need so much space now you're living life alone?

Even though the kids still call

You can't quite place the voices

you can't quite find their names

One day everything you ever owned was emptied on the floor

They reckon it's not safe for you to be in this house anymore

This house is vacant now

This house is vacant now

And now we're there unpacking things.

Boxes inside boxes inside boxes full of everything you ever did

Diaries of feelings that you'd never ever shown

Photographs of all the other houses you'd called home

Every single thing

Is every single thing

Every single thing

Is every single thing

And it's your things

And it's his things

And it's my things

And it's our things

And if we pack carefully we can do it in one load

With the man and his van

Who's taking it all away today

Leaving the empty shell that's left of where we'd been

Ready for the next ones to move in

This house is empty now

This house is empty now

This house is empty now

This house is empty now

This house is ready to move on

This house is ready now we're gone

This house is ready to move on

This house is ready now we're gone

This house is ready to move on

This house is ready now we're gone

This house is ready to move on

This house is ready now we're gone