House of Glass

Words and music by Bobby Griffith

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team of pondr-ing law- yers plot-ted Both our fates in fine de-tail Till all were sure theyd not al-lot-ted

one small space for us

to

fail

Not one small space for us

to

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fail

An

ar - chi - tect then drew his plans up

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He de - signed a house toawe In sur - ance ag - ents threw their hands upSearch - ing forthe ti - niest

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flaw

Theycould -not find the ti - niest

flaw

Our

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wed - ding made the main - stream me - dia

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their staffs

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Pho - to - shopped

our

They

pho - to - graphs

They

searched us in the en - cy clo pe -dia Pho to - shopped our pho - to graphs

Pa - pers mar shaled all

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Once each task had passed in - spec - tion

And our wed - ding day wasdone

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house and we en - joyed

per - fec - tion

Our

per - fec - tion

Spark - ling in the noon - day

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sun

We spark - led in the noon - day

sun

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3
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3

ev - ry - one star - ing and

of

glass

With

won - der - ing wheth - er our fair - y tale

in a house

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But we lived

end - ing

would

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last

Check - ing for cracks in that glit - ter- ing place

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in that house

glass

of

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3

3

Climb - ing the stair - case and

We were cold

pass - ing each oth - er But far-ther a -

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part

ev ry

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day

See - ing it all, but still los - ing our

Does it

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threw the first stone?

way

real - ly

mat - ter

The

clat - ter's the same when all's said and done, my dear

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Wheth - er you

nir

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my

Bac - ca - rat crys - tal

sou - ve -

Or

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shat - tered

brought down

with a

lier

crash your Wa - ter - ford chan - de

Noth -ings more fra - gile than that house

of

glass

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There are some things

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you just cant

get

Liv - ing is bru - tal, And love is

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soon - er or la - ter

past

alls lost

so

brit -tle That

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Pick up the pie - ces, its time to move on

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Noth - ing and no one for-gives

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in

a house

of glass