Get out of This House Lyrics

Lyric discussion by 1wildflower1 

Cover art for Get out of This House lyrics by Shawn Colvin

I think it is about escaping a troubled childhood to build a trouble free home just to find yourself, suprisingly, in a home life you never thought you'd live again.

"I spent eleven long years in a hot house zone I spent twenty-nine more trying to get home Well, I never got home, but I did what I did And I got myself this house and you can't come in, oh"