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Gus Mahoney

No room for me

Drove trucks for eleven years and writes like someone with time to think and no radio

the numbers

bpm
83
key
G major
energy
0.70
dance
0.94
valence
0.43
vocal at
6.5s
length
3:43
language
En

lyrics

Pulled up at sundown on Eighth and Main

Same dented screen door, same peeling paint

Your porch chair’s gone, just a nail in the frame

I set my duffel down and called your name

The yard’s got two truck tracks in the clay

Dog bowl tipped over, green ring of rust

I came with a key and a debt to pay

But the house kept quiet in the dust

No room for me

No room for me

No room for me

No room for me

I came back wrong

I came back late

Your table’s full

My plate stayed clean

Mama’s old ashtray on the freezer top

One coffee cup turned down by the sink

Your work boots lined up by the back porch stop

I could hear the screen door, but I didn’t think

There’s a fresh coat of paint on my name

But it won’t cover the oil-stain truth

You learned to live with a missing frame

And I learned too slow what you already knew

No room for me

No room for me

No room for me

No room for me

I came back wrong

I came back late

Your table’s full

My plate stayed clean

I stood by the mailbox till the moths came out

Counted six loose boards on the barn

You didn’t need my hands, my help, or my doubt

Just a good hard latch and a working charm

No room for me

No room for me

No room for me

No room for me

I came back wrong

I came back late

Your table’s full

My plate stayed clean