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There’s History Here   
Copyright Reserved Pete Holland and Inglath Cooper
 
Grandma’s is the only place on the block
With a hothouse and a cuckoo clock still cluckin’
Her backyard’s the only garden on the street
No, all the rest are grey concrete with a hot tub stuck in
And to the men that offer a million every day
She’ll just say

There’s history here behind these doors
In the rust in the pipes and the worn wood floors
Buzzing in the copper wires of the walls
Echoes down the hall
There’s history here and I know it best
It’s been a full house an empty nest
And I’ll admit a million would be nice
But I can’t put a price on this many years
Cause there’s history here

Grandma’s still got grandpa’s old car
Out in the garage with those jam jars that are always clinkin’
She only drove it once, it didn’t go too well
She should clean it up and sell it, she’s been thinkin’
For the last five years, but she never does
And that’s because

There’s history here behind these doors
In the rust in the pipes and the worn wood floors
Buzzing in the copper wires in the walls
And just down the hall
There’s history here where grandpa died
We said goodbye by his bedside
What would she do with a million anyway
When she thinks ahead it’s days, and not years
And there’s history here

Grandma’s house is gonna be mine someday
I pulled my dad aside and I told him
There’s too many memories I don’t want to give away
And only this one house could ever hold ‘em
I’d never sell that place, I’d never let it go
Because I know
There’s history here though it don’t look like much
It’s nothing you can measure or  touch

There’s history here behind these doors
In the rust in the pipes and the worn wood floors
Buzzing in the copper wires of the walls
A house built of all
Yesterday’s joy yesterday’s sorrow
Today’s worries and hopes for tomorrow
Thick and thin in the leanest of days
And you can’t appraise this many years
Cause there’s history here