Lyrics

There was broken glass a mattress and busted kitchen chairs
A cement slab and four gray cinder blocks
Clothes and toys and papers were scattered everywhere
And this teenage girl stood crying on the lot

She said we got out before that twister came through here
Mamma drove us to the basement of our church
I saw her look into the camera wiping off her tears
She said everything we ever owned is lying in this dirt

And she slowly walked around that torn up patch of ground
Said I’m standing where our front door used to be
And I know some folks would say that it was just a trailer
But it was home to me

She said I know people out there watching me right now
Must think my life is just some kind of a joke
That tin and vinyl siding ain’t much of a house
And we’re all bums and drunks dumb and always broke

But what we had was paid for my mamma works so hard
My Daddy died when I was only ten
I could see her heart was breaking as she struggled through the yard
Searching through the rubble to find a photograph of him

She slowly walked around that torn up patch of ground
And said I’m standing where my bedroom used to be
And I know some folks would say it was just a cheap old trailer
But it was home to me

It might be an empty space but we’ll build it back some day
‘Cause it was home to me