Steve Forbert - Open House

"Open house now for your fading heart,
Tell your ghost it's time to hide;
Strangers won't know when to stop and start
Once they've fin'ly got inside.

Spir'ling staircase toward your dusty mind,
With crates and boxes and bags and trunks;
No one cares what tender dreams they'll find,
All they'll see up there is junk

With silver dollars from a ragdoll's ear
And merc'ry dimes for buttons, too,
And flutes and whistles only kids can hear
And peacock feathers green and blue.

Deep depression in a walnut grain,
Afternoons on rainy days;
Once it stacked up well in both your brains,
And now it's all some purple haze

With vandals picking locks and breaking doors
And smashing keepsakes all around;
Souvenirs of love and foreign shores
And scrapbook pages all unbound.

It's open house now for your fading heart,
Tell your ghost it's time to hide;
Strangers won't know when to stop and start
Once they've fin'ly got inside.

"
"Open house now for your fading heart,
Tell your ghost it's time to hide;
Strangers won't know when to stop and start
Once they've fin'ly got inside.

Spir'ling staircase toward your dusty mind,
With crates and boxes and bags and trunks;
No one cares what tender dreams they'll find,
All they'll see up there is junk

With silver dollars from a ragdoll's ear
And merc'ry dimes for buttons, too,
And flutes and whistles only kids can hear
And peacock feathers green and blue.

Deep depression in a walnut grain,
Afternoons on rainy days;
Once it stacked up well in both your brains,
And now it's all some purple haze

With vandals picking locks and breaking doors
And smashing keepsakes all around;
Souvenirs of love and foreign shores
And scrapbook pages all unbound.

It's open house now for your fading heart,
Tell your ghost it's time to hide;
Strangers won't know when to stop and start
Once they've fin'ly got inside.

"
Open House

Provided to YouTube by Warner Music Group Open House · Steve Forbert Rocking Horse Head ℗ 1995 Giant Records for the United States and WEA International for the world outside. Producer:...

Open House

Provided to YouTube by Warner Music Group Open House · Steve Forbert Rocking Horse Head ℗ 1995 Giant Records for the United States and WEA International for the world outside. Producer:...

Goin' Down To Laurel

Steve Forbert and The Soundbenders live in Meridian, MS, on October 4, 2007. Taken from the Rolling Tide Records CD/DVD MERIDIAN available from SteveForbert.com.

Steve Forbert - Goin' down to Laurel

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The song "Good Planets Are Hard To Find" is written and performed by Steve Forbert. Steve Forbert cares strongly for the environment, especially when it comes to recycling. He recycles "everything...

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