Chris Smither - Nobody Home Lyrics

I’ve been looking all overTrying to find a place to lay my headI used to have a house and a spouseNow it’s hers insteadI thought I had a friendI was knocking on his doorTrying to remind him what friends are forBut I think he’s deadI saw his neighbor on the front porch looking pretty stonedHis dog was in the backyardChewing on a boneThere’s nobody homeNobody homeI saw a church with a sign it was openSo I stepped insideIt said “double your misery back if you ain’t satisfied “I thought, this deal can’t last, I better cash in quickGet it all done before I get too sick to find my way outsidеI saw a Saint with his mouth open, carved out of stoneA prеacher with his mouth shut staring at his phoneBut there’s nobody homeThere wasn’t nobody homeI saw a big white house down on Pennsylvania avenueI said “open up the gate, this can’t wait”, and they said “who are you?”I said I was a citizen trying to cut a deal for a Russian unicycle with a missing wheelThey let me throughI saw a clown with a comb-over trying to float a loan through the CIA while he tweeted on his phoneBut there’s nobody homeThere wasn’t nobody homeIt’s getting hard to maintain connections in a personal wayEverybody wants to text but they ain’t got nothing to sayYeah believe me when I tell you it’s like being alone hanging out with numbers in a cyber zoneYeah you pay to playIt’ll drive you crazy right around the bendPretty soon you’re talking to yourself againAnd there ain’t nobody homeNobody home