Jandek - It's Your House lyrics
The next time you talk Talk to me Got eyes for you Got ears for you And I'm watching And I'm listening What do I see? What do I hear? The next time you walk Walk my way The next time you talk Speak to me, take me Another day on the road Carrying my load Heavy, now So so much weight Did I wait too long? Keep me strong Let me build my house For you to come in Take away this thing Let me build my house I'm ready for the house I'm ready for the house Do you hear? Yeah, you hear You're one big ear You're one big eye You see me, small as I am You hear me, through all this noise You know, I'm ready for the house Let me build my house I got a dream Of granite rocks And iron bars Let me build my house of rock and steel Let me build my house Let me build my house I got this dream Of iron and steel Of rock and granite Black flecks in the gray stone it's granite It's heavy rock It's heavy rock It's cast iron Cast iron and heavy rock Don't got no gla** Don't got no wood Don't got no synthetic fiber No foil products Don't got no gla** Don't got no plastic Don't got no wood Don't got to brick Don't got no shingles Don't got no aluminum siding I want my house I want my granite iron house Don't you know, I'm ready for the house I got this dream of my house The one you gave me in my mind I'm ready for the house Let me build my house I got this dream Oh, you know that enough to have my dream My dream come true You could do it There is no doubt There is no doubt And another thing, I'm ready for the house I'm ready for the house Just put me there You'll see I'm ready for the house You make me come You make me go Here and there and everywhere And I don't complain Even though it hurts You know I tell you all about it but I don't mind livin in my dream I don't mind livin in my dream But let me tell you, you know, I know you know I'm ready for the house You gave me my dream You know I'm workin' I'm working, I'm trying I'm not sloughin' off, I'm givin' it all I got And you know, I'm ready for the house I'm ready for the house I'm ready for the house The house is mine It's in my mind They say mind over matter Well let that be Let it be my mind That creates the matter That builds my house Out of granite And cast iron I love my house Like I love my mind I'll take it over anybody else's house I'll take it over anybody else's mind You couldn't sell my anybody else's being I'm not interested You know I'm a loner I don't like anything but my dreams And doin' right by you And you set my example Let me build my house Let me build my house Let me build my house Then step my foot inside my dream Put my dream on this planet Put my dream on this earth Then see if I can have some fun Let's give it a try Let me build my house Let me build my house You know I'm ready for the house Let me live my dream I'll give up all my time I'll give up my whole life Forget all the money Forget all the time Forget my whole life For right now, let me build my house I want my house I want a granite house With steel bars on the windows and doors And a fence all around it And maybe on the ceiling too But ha ha ha ha You can drive all those other materials they mess with when they make houses Like wood, plastic and brick and gla** Just give me granite and cast iron I'll build a house I'll build a house you can be proud of I'll live in it, I'll die in it I'll worship in it And I'll be good 'Cause I wanna be good You can have all your bad I've seen it, and I don't want it I love good, I love righteous And I need to be that way And I know you want that And I tell you, you got it from me Let me build my house Granite and iron I'm ready for the house Ain't no way I can lose Gimme that house Aw, just gimme that house And you got it, as if you didn't have it already You got it, you got me, you got my love That won't ever change No matter where you put me through Ain't nobody else left around You got me by myself You want me by myself, you got me I can't see anybody else Unless I go where there's people Which I do Just to keep tryin' to build my house If I wasn't tryin' to build my house I'd be in the woods Walkin' around lookin' at trees or sand or rock or what or skies Maybe I'd see an animal Maybe I'd see a bird I tell you what, thought I wouldn't mind Can you take me to that place you know Back where'd I be Well I tell you one thing At this point I'm ready for the house I'm ready for the house Sounds good enough to me I'm ready for your house For you house, it's not my house It's your house You done went and put it in my mind I mean, where do my thoughts and dreams come from, huh? I'm sure you contribute to it You put it in my mind My house, hey, I'm ready for it And that ain't all I'm ready to live in it I'm ready to die in it I'm ready to be there Aha I'm ready for the house Ready for the house Granite, cast iron It's my dream I been ready a long time I think now I'm really ready I'm ready for the house Hey, put me there Hey, let me put myself there Hey, huh huh huh huh huh huh I'm ready for the house And if you don't put me there, guess what? I'll be there anyway, in my mind Where's it at anyway? It's in my mind, lest I put it on the ground Ain't no two ways about it I'm ready for the house