This Old House

by @morti

Liner Notes

Towards the end of 2020, @claudia and I moved to Germany. We had to get over before Brexit and travel was difficult then. Because various borders were closed we couldn't drive so our only option was to take a suitcase and a cat each on a plane. We lived in a couple of little flats and then bought an old house about a year ago. There's not any part of this you'd call "easy", but I have to say it's worked out pretty well. This is a #country song about moving countries with the one you love. Country is when slide guitar and vaguely-American pronunciation.

Lyrics

I moved away from everything I knew
To a strange and faraway land
With two cases and two cats away we flew
Up and away to the great unknown

The world looked the same inside four walls
The only changes were the spaces between
As time went on our world got less small
Saw where we were, and where we wanted to go

I'm not a person who's good with change
And yet from one day to the next
Everything we saw around us was new
And what was left was only us
But there's nowhere else I'd rather be
Than in this old house with you

We gathered together everything we could
And we bought this little old house
It's stone and bricks and nails and wood
With no right-angles to be found

It'll take some work but we're getting there
The dream house coming slowly true
With every change and every repair
It feels more like home each day

I'm not a person who's good with change
And yet from one day to the next
Everything we saw around us was new
And what was left was only us
But there's nowhere else I'd rather be
Than in this old house with you

We'll stay here forever just us two
In our little old village home
Although it was hard it's a dream come true
In this old house with you

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