The House Does Not Know

The House Does Not Know

Verse 1

The house does not know I am gone It keeps the kettle warm It keeps the clock doing its small arithmetic The same sum every hour The door is a door The stairs are stairs Nothing here has learned to miss me

Chorus

I left by the gap shaped like a doorway The wall that was always a wall And then was not I left by the gap shaped like a doorway And the house does not know The house does not know

Verse 2

The truth came up at four a.m. And broke away and fell Through the floors of the house Landing, cellar, water table And the water closed Like a mouth that had been waiting

Chorus

I left by the gap shaped like a doorway The wall that was always a wall And then was not I left by the gap shaped like a doorway And the house does not know The house does not know

Bridge

The count fails here There is no fourth The number that was supposed to hold the weight Gave way

Outro

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