This Room for Rent

[Verse 1]
This room’s for rent
So you feel free to turn the key and walk right through the door
You won’t be intruding
'Cause they’re ain’t nobody lives here anymore
But once a love in hand in hand they came
Though they never shared a common name
She dressed here love and stately pride
And wear it downtown
And pity all the lovers once
Who’d look at her in all her joy and frown

[Verse 2]
I can see you find it hard to find
The beauty in these rooms so old and worn
But through the eyes of love they shown
Brightly as a bright summer morn'
They hang a blanket at the window to help keep out the sun
And fell on the bed where they’d sleep through the afternoon
She’d fall asleep and know that he’d find her
Somewhere in his dreams
And he’d lie awake and try and find
The words to tell her things just weren’t the way they seemed

[Bridge]
There’s the door that he walked through
When he finally found the nerve to say
All the things she would’ve sworn he’d never say
She watched him through this window
As he walked into the world yesterday
And she wondered if he’d thrown the key away

[Verse 3]
There’s the kitchen table
Where she sat and tried to dry her eyes
On a corner of a scratchy paper towel
She cried to God and asked Him
If that man had ever loved her anyhow
Cigarette burns on the table
Coffee cups, beer cans on the floor
She’s heard no word from God
And nothing seems to matter anymore