Houses Sing - Danny Schmidt

There's signs in all the yards

With a price tag and a plea

Can't you hear them houses sing

Can't you hear them houses sing

And I can see my daughter swinging

In the shade of every tree

Can't you hear them houses sing

Can't you hear them houses sing

And I can move a mountain

When the mountain moves in me

And I can hear them houses sing

I can hear them houses sing

Every building tells a story every builder holds a pen

Can't you hear them houses sing

Can't you hear them houses sing

They only tell beginnings

They're yours to tell the end

Can't you hear them houses sing

Can't you hear them houses sing

And I can move a mountain

When the mountain moves in me

And I can hear them houses sing

I can hear them houses sing

If there's limestone 'neath the pylons

That's stone enough for me

Can't you hear them houses sing

Can't you hear them houses sing

'Cause I'm cracked in all the places

I expect my steps should be

Can't you hear them houses sing

Can't you hear them houses sing

They sing like tired children

They just sing the things they know

Then they sink into your arms

Until your dreams become their own

But the only thing that stands

Between the houses and the homes

Is a mountain top an old steel pail

And thirty years of stones

So all you quarrymen and miners

You family men and friends

Can't you hear them houses sing

I can hear them houses sing

'Cause I'm here to move a mountain

I'm here to make a man

Can't you hear them houses sing

I can hear them houses sing

'Cause I can move a mountain

When the mountain moves in me

And say I can hear them houses sing

Can't you hear them houses sing

And say I can hear them houses sing

Can't you hear them houses sing