From the recordings What's Out There and What's Out There
In 1955 (the year I was born) my parents bought a house in a small town just south of Indianapolis. The house stayed in our family until my Mom died in 2020, at the age of 90. While the house was being prepared to be sold, I wrote this song.
Drums – Josh Hermsmeier
Bass – Rick Nash
Electric Guitars – Doug Pettibone
Keyboards – Josh Weinstein
Backing Vocals - Lauren Leigh
Vocal – Dan Gindling
Lyrics
It was [D]our house
across from farm fields,
under [A]blue skies
It was [D]our house
Backyard barbecues
and [A]fireflies
[Em]In our home, where
[A]We laughed and felt safe
[Em]Dinners at five
[A]Graduations and birthdays
In [D]our house
It was our house
Black & white TV
and the moon walks
It was our house, S&H
Greenstamps and
bell bottom jeans talk
In our home, Mom cooked,
made us pick up our clothes
Dad smoked his pipe,
with the Reds on the radio
In our house
To our home we'd return from
snowy park sled rides
And yearly camp trips as far
as our Chevy would drive
To our house
To our house
It was our house,
love and friendship,
sisters and brothers
It was our house
Visits from aunts and uncles
Pot roast in the oven
In our home, family photos,
we're lined up by age
All of the joking,
playing cards and board games
In our house
One-by-one we left
Still Mom and Dad, they thrived
Six of us gone
Each to start a new life
Some of us in town
Some of us far away
We'd descend
on the house on Christmas day
And then Dad, he died
Mom carried on
keeping the house a home
where we felt loved and warm
She fell ill, then
she passed away
After 65 years, our home
went silent and
that's how it stayed
Until a new family moved in
Six kids, their mom and dad
Just like us
Now,
it
is
their house