Name: House in My Chest
Duration: P00H03M44S
Description: Wrote this one in Tulsa, while I was sleeping on some kool kids' leather couch. It's about how I was going to lock away my feelings until a time when fate carries back the key.

House in My Chest

from Workin' Progress by Andrew Hoskins

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Wrote this one in Tulsa, while I was sleeping on some kool kids' leather couch. It's about how I was going to lock away my feelings until a time when fate carries back the key.

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House in My Chest

G
Well I got up this mornin’ with the sunlight on my face,
A D
homeless and sick for that heart I could not chase.
G
Well I thought about my day, cause last night I can’t remember
D G
Well I got up a nerve and dusted off my jeans.

Chorus
C G
Well I built a house inside my chest, a place where my hopes and dreams could rest,
D G
and dropped the key in this bottle from the night before.
C G
Well I gave it to the ocean to carry away.
D G
There’s no need for hopeless hopin’ anyway.

A foundation made of stone, walls made of pine,
furnished with belongings from once upon a time.
Inside my memories the décor for to view,
Outside a locked door of green with a shade of blue.

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Solo

My heart was black as coal, so easy to burn.
I was lookin’ for a love that I didn’t have to earn.
The first gal that came along, seekin’ shelter from the cold,
Well she burned me up, and found another one I’m told.

Chorus
There’s no need for hopeless hopin’ anyway

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from Workin' Progress, released July 26, 2011

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