Abandoned Homes

All the homes we have kept in many distant lands All of the candlelight we have gathered in our hands What happens to these places when we have moved away? Do they remember us as we remember them today? Wait, I know what you're thinking Though it is late, and though we've been drinking If you choose to revisit all those places over yonder Then just be careful where you let your feet wander There is a hallway connecting all abandoned homes So that nothing abandoned is truly left alone And if you walk that way, you may never make it back So don't dare lose your track Through this door where the light is dim and low The tenements we left behind so long ago Now they stand empty, those not torn apart The walls still hold a piece of beating heart And through this door, an apartment just for you and I Above the shop we tended, above the hue and cry Now, what was home is gone to rot and to mold The city came and finally took hold There is a hallway connecting all abandoned homes So that nothing abandoned is truly left alone And if you walk that way, you may never make it back Do you want to make it back? Lead me to wander through your memories Lead me through the stories of absent family Dance me to the places you once used to go Without you, I'll never know There was a hallway connecting all abandoned homes So that nothing abandoned was ever left alone Once upon a time, you and I walked down that way And forever arm in arm we will stay