Play House Lyrics by Charly Reynolds
3 stories tall, Almost taller than me
Spiral staircase, a bedroom TV
Pink floral wallpaper on the walls
Wasn’t bad for a Ken and a Barbie Doll
In my own world, while in the other room
Mom and dad hid what they were working through
Couldn’t have been easy I know it
To act like sunshine and roses
Truth is the older I get I realize I wasn’t
The only one making things look perfect
Tying up bows in a pretty dress
Sweeping up dust and closing curtains
Life gets hard so we pretend
That things are fine, things are good
That the roof ain’t crashing down
Turns out that a little girl
Ain’t the only one who knew how
To play house
My doll had a king bed, all to herself
Light blue convertible, bought from Mattel
While dad had a rough nights sleep on the couch
Mom dreaming ‘bout a day where they figure it out
It’s crazy how, I wasn’t
The only one making things look perfect
Tying up bows in a pretty dress
Sweeping up dust and closing curtains
Life gets hard so we pretend
That things are fine, things are good
That the roof ain’t crashing down
Turns out that a little girl
Ain’t the only one who knew how
To color it all and shade it in
I guess we aren’t that different
I wasn’t the only one making things look perfect
Tying up bows in a pretty dress
Sweeping up dust and closing curtains
Life gets hard so we pretend
That things are fine, things are good
That the roof ain’t crashing down
Turns out that a little girl
Ain’t the only one who knew how
To play house
