Your House

Might have been graduation night or your Sweet Sixteen

There were movie stars doing bits

You were smoking Mary Jane and singing to a cat, somewhere outside

Having the time of your life

You spent your twenties on TV, coming of age

Misadventures in the City, heartbreak and big dreams

Honolulu sunsets and boys on one knee

On a soundstage in Queens

From Hollywood to the Chelsea Hotel

Everyone’s coming to your house

Billy Wilder, Joan and Gloria Blondell

Everyone is coming to your house

You’ve been on a real Flying Nuns kick for a while

Burning through Pixy Stix and every last Peckinpah

On midnight booze runs, swooning studio EP’s

Sing down to you from the trees

From Hollywood to the Chelsea Hotel

Everyone is coming to your house

The entire cast of Saved by The Bell

Everyone is coming to your house

(Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young

Buddy bolden and Charlie too

Calloway and Armstrong

Al Cohn and Sam Donahue)

The EastSide Kids are putting on Annie

and Louis B Mayer’s on the phone

a young Liz Taylor says you’ve got to write your movie

a twohander for us, set in Italy

Did you catch yourself thinking

It wouldn’t be all bad?

From Hollywood to the Chelsea Hotel

Everyone is coming to your house

Danny Kaye, Joan and Gloria Blondell

Everyone is coming to your house

From Pine Island Sound to the Moonlight Rollerway

From Clement Town, Kerala and Palk bay

From the talent shows, from Orléans and Barentin

Lovely Saint-Malo, and all of the places in between

From the summer retreats, and your junior varsity team

The old neighborhood streets, and every absent-minded dream

Debbie, Rita, Ginger, Jimmy, Ava, Judy, Lana, John, Sammy, Cyd, Betty, Donna, Gene, Cary, James, Sidney, William, Jerry, Jack, Ray, Mary, Joanie, Jane, Lee, Charlie, Sam, Bobby, Gloria, Tommy, Zac, RJ, Bobby, Lisa, Shelley, Sam, Linda, Tiffany, Mary, Chris, Alan, Heather, Ryan, Ben, Emma, Kyle, Sean, Tiffany, Michael, Will, Abby, Don, Rachel, James, Alicia

Run by the store

Turn on the lights

Open the door

Open it wide