This house is built of oak and stone
Here I make my stand
If you want to know me
You'll have to take me as I am
Standing in these new-plowed fields
Mud up to my knees
Everybody's got their words to say
But I do just as I please
I'm the many architects
And I bend to their design
Hopeful as a newlywed
Recall the place and time
This house is built of oak and stone
Here I make my stand
If you want to know me
You'll have to take me as I am
Life's a war of small talk
And I hate to pretend
But how can I weave between
Such voluntary friends
My clothes, my???, my cigarettes
Gasoline and beer
Slipping through the hands of strangers
I find my way back here
This house is built of oak and stone
Here I make my stand
If you want to know me
You'll have to take me as I am
There's so much here to realize
Cold water to my face
I bow to tie my sneakers
And burn the book of saints
When we were kids we used to talk
Of staying tough and true
Through the years the words held up
I trust the best of me to you
This house is built of oak and stone
Here I make my stand
If you want to know me
You'll have to take me as I am
(repeat 2x)
This house is built of oak
And stone.