[00:13.53]When I was a kid I grew up in a house on a hill
[00:17.41]Not the top, not the bottom, but the middle
[00:20.10]And I still remember where I cracked my head
[00:23.04]In the vacant lot, there's a row of tiny houses there now
[00:27.16]And we used to light fires in the gutters
[00:29.86]And I could cool my head on the concrete steps
[00:32.86]But the girl down the street hit my sister on the head
[00:36.05]With a stick and we hid behind my father
[00:38.98]As he knocked on the parents' door
[00:41.30]To tell the them what she did
[00:42.92]But the parents were drunk so they really didn't give a shit
[00:48.79]
[00:49.30]And the girl down the street said a dog couldn't bark
[00:52.93]'Cause a man with an axe cut its voicebox out
[00:56.14]But my older sister told me that it prob'ly wasn't true
[00:59.20]And I believe what she said 'cause she took me by the hand
[01:02.39]One time when a coupla men drove down the hill in a white van
[01:06.92]Said there was a phone box filled with money 'round the corner
[01:10.80]And I woulda gone along but she took me by the hand
[01:13.99]To the house in the middle of the hill
[01:16.92]In the middle of the hill, in the middle of the hill
[01:20.80]
[01:22.42]And my mother knew the words to a lot of different songs
[01:25.36]And we'd always sing the harmonies, yeah we'd sing along
[01:28.61]She had cold, cold hands when the fever hit
[01:31.86]And then the noises that the trains made sounded like people in my head
[01:36.24]And the stories that the ceiling told
[01:38.43]Through the pictures and the grains in the pine-wood boards
[01:41.74]And let me stay outside 'til the sky went red
[01:45.05]And I could cool my head on the concrete steps
[01:48.30]And you could never really see the top from the bottom
[01:51.11]But I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em
[01:55.24]And you could never really see the top from the bottom
[01:58.11]I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em
[02:01.80]I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em
[02:04.80]I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em
[02:07.94]I don't pay enough attention to the good things when I got 'em