Song Analysis 5 (The House That Built Me by miranda lambert)

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I know they say you cant go home again.                                                                          

I just had to come back one last time                                                                             . 
Ma'am I know you don't know me from Adam.                                                                   
But these handprints on the front steps are mine.                                                             
And up those stairs, in that little back bedroom                                                                 
is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar.                                                    
And I bet you didn't know under that live oak                                                                  
my favorite dog is buried in the yard.                                                                  

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it                                                                    
this brokenness inside me might start healing.                                                             
Out here its like I'm someone else,                                                                    
I thought that maybe I could find myself                                                                 
if I could just come in I swear I'll leave.                                                                     
Won't take nothing but a memory                                                                          
from the house that built me.                           Metaphor                                                 

Mama cut out pictures of houses for years.                                                                  
From 'Better Homes and Garden' magazines.         Allusion                                                          
Plans were drawn, concrete poured,                                                                 
and nail by nail and board by board                                                                 
Daddy gave life to mama's dream.                                                            

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it                                                             
this brokenness inside me might start healing.                                                   
Out here its like I'm someone else,                                                                
I thought that maybe I could find myself.                                                           
If I could just come in I swear I'll leave.                                                                 
Won't take nothing but a memory                                                               
from the house that built me.                                                               

You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can.                                                
I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.                                                              

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it                                                                     
this brokenness inside me might start healing.                                                                  
Out here its like I'm someone else,                                                                     
I thought that maybe I could find myself.                                                                          
If I could walk around I swear I'll leave.                                                                         
Won't take nothing but a memory                                                                               
from the house that built me.                                                                                 

In the song "The House That Built Me", Miranda Lambert portrays the feeling of returning to the house she grew up. She believes that if she goes to the place where she became who she was then she would find herself again.

In the first verse, she talks about how after you leave home and go out in the world your not suppose to come back home. She is talking to a stranger, probably the people who bought the house after the speaker's parents. She starts talking about the things in the house were things she did hung out in when she was little. "  But these handprints on the front steps are mine.     And up those stairs, in that little back bedroom is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar.And I bet you didn't know under that live oak,my favorite dog is buried in the yard." The speaker is talking about how the little odd details of the house where the things she did when she was young like the "handprints on the front steps."    

In the second verse, the speaker is talking about how the feeling of something broken in her, like something is missing. She comes back to find herself."Out here its like I'm someone else,     I thought that maybe I could find myself." she promises the lady that she wont stay long that all she want was to look around and remember the times when she was a child growing up in the house. Hopeful that she will find out who she is from the house. "if I could just come in I swear I'll leave.Won't take nothing but a memory, from the house that built me."

In the third verse,  the speaker goes back in the time when her mom had a dream about a house. She use to cut pictures out magazines. "Mama cut out pictures of houses for years.         From 'Better Homes and Garden' magazines.Plans were drawn, concrete poured, and nail by nail and board by board ,Daddy gave life to mama's dream. " The speaker's father built her mother's dream house. The house that the speaker is going through finding herself is the house that is the mother's dream house.  

In the fourth verse, the speaker talks about leaving home and grow up. She was so overwhelmed living on her own she forgot who she was.

The song is basically about coming home to find the person she forgot about and its about all the memories she had when she was growing up. Its a beautiful song I believe.