Called it home before I could speak
Hiding out before I could seek
Just a wee mouse
In the brick house 
Just off Reservoir Road

'Twas the wood that rooted me
Flowering on my family tree 
Learned to know how
In that brick house
Just off Reservoir Road

Goddamn, have I built a dam 
Between my future and past
But goddamn, do I give a damn
Gonna make the moment last

Once a teller read my palm
She spoke of how I wrote my songs
On the floorboards of that big house 
Just off Reservoir Road

And it was through those window panes 
Grew my deepest growing pains
Yeah, what I know now
From that big house 
Just off Reservoir Road

Goddamn, have I built a dam
Between history and hope 
But goddamn, do I give a damn 
Gonna let the water flow

So, my true love, he and I
Joined our hands under bluest sky
Took a big vow
At the big house
Just off Reservoir Road

And in time, see, I have found
Sometimes you build 
Sometimes you tear it down
Something I learned how
From the big house
Just off Reservoir Road