“7. This is not my home” from The House That Trauma Built by Li Jean-Luc Harris. Released: 2026. Track 7.
Lyrics: (Verse 1)
The chapter with Carol and John had to end
A difficult turn, a painful new bend
Now an unfamiliar door under a camera’s eye
A list of cold rules replaces a warm goodbye
They call it a house, but it’s a hollow shell
With a staff room for a heart, a story I can tell
This isn’t the first, and it won’t be the last
Just another new chapter that’s chained to the past
(Chorus)
‘Cause this isn’t a home, it’s just a place to stay
Where the staff and the kids all just fade away
Just a name in a file, a bed on the left
Another lost soul of comfort bereft
Living a life on a system’s delay
(Verse 2)
The residents come and the residents go
Their stories untold, seeds that never grow
The kind staff, they flicker, a moment of grace
’til a new, tired stranger arrives to take their place
And you’re left with the good and the bad in this room
With the ghosts in the hallway and gathering gloom
(Chorus)
‘Cause this isn’t a home, it’s just a place to stay
Where the staff and the kids all just fade away
Just a name in a file, a bed on the left
Another lost soul of comfort bereft
Living a life on a system’s delay
(Bridge)
There’s a poster that lists all my rights on the wall
But the words are just ghosts that don’t hear when I call
Through smoke in the rec room and fights in the night
I plead for the peace of that porch light so bright
But the darkness just whispers, “There’s no other scene…”
(Outro)
So you give up the fight
You surrender the plea
You find a new quiet
Where no one can see
And the whispers are silenced by the comfort I glean…
From my only queen, Skunk Weed
My queen