This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Come to my House of Earth
If you would like for me to
Give your old time feelings back
Come here to my house of good rich earth
If you would like me to teach
Your wife a thing or two
Come here to this illegal place for joys
And teach your wife this way to grow new boys
I'll take you by your hand
And show you whirls
Of these same feelings that grow pretty girls
I'll wash your feet a couple of times a day
Till all of your old time sorrow melts away
You'll leave some drops of honey on my couch
I'll leave a couple dollars in your pouch
My House of Earth is the richest land in town
I pity those dead ones that at me frown
So come to my House of
Earth and learn it's worth
A few green folded bills to learn of birth
I kiss you in such odd unnatural ways
Your wife will then find
Out that kissing pays
Two times a day, I'll wash you in my tub
Ten times a day, I'll pat your skin and rub
Call me a prostitute and a whore too
I'll do these tricks your wife refuses to
I swear by all my Bibles you won't regret
I've never seen a man who's sorry yet
I love you once to teach you all your life
The things to do when you are with your wife
Your wife should be quite glad
And proud of me
For waking both of you up to these things
You see
My House of Earth runs down with wine and rum
Lots of different ways that you can come
And if you do come, I will be glad to see you
And if you don't come
I'm glad you don't need me
I'll furnish red hot kisses and the hole
That wakes a sleeping sickness in your soul
If you would like for me to
Give your old time feelings back
Come here to my house of good rich earth
If you would like me to teach
Your wife a thing or two
Come here to this illegal place for joys
And teach your wife this way to grow new boys
I'll take you by your hand
And show you whirls
Of these same feelings that grow pretty girls
I'll wash your feet a couple of times a day
Till all of your old time sorrow melts away
You'll leave some drops of honey on my couch
I'll leave a couple dollars in your pouch
My House of Earth is the richest land in town
I pity those dead ones that at me frown
So come to my House of
Earth and learn it's worth
A few green folded bills to learn of birth
I kiss you in such odd unnatural ways
Your wife will then find
Out that kissing pays
Two times a day, I'll wash you in my tub
Ten times a day, I'll pat your skin and rub
Call me a prostitute and a whore too
I'll do these tricks your wife refuses to
I swear by all my Bibles you won't regret
I've never seen a man who's sorry yet
I love you once to teach you all your life
The things to do when you are with your wife
Your wife should be quite glad
And proud of me
For waking both of you up to these things
You see
My House of Earth runs down with wine and rum
Lots of different ways that you can come
And if you do come, I will be glad to see you
And if you don't come
I'm glad you don't need me
I'll furnish red hot kisses and the hole
That wakes a sleeping sickness in your soul
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
House of Earth Lyrics as written by Woody Guthrie Lucinda Gayl Williams
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management
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