A Different Hum

[Verse 1]
(Speaker 1)
The new lock clicks on the Lowry apartment door
It doesn't catch like the one we had before
You trace the wall where the water damage was
Said, "See? Good as new. All for us."

[Chorus]
But if you replace the timber and the stone
Is the house you built still a home?
We won the war, we patched the shear
But darling, what are we doing here?

[Verse 2]
(Speaker 2)
I smell the paint, it's covering the smoke
From six months back, when every promise broke
We’ve spent the year just swapping plank for plank
A perfect structure, empty as a bank

[Chorus]
And if you replace the timber and the stone
Is the house you built still a home?
We won the war, we patched the shear
But darling, what are we doing here?

[Bridge]
Last Tuesday night, you whispered in the dark
"I miss the sound of its old, aching heart"
It's a different hum, a frequency too clean
A perfect resonant, dead machine

[Chorus]
If you replace the timber and the stone
Is the house we built still our home?
We won the war, we patched the shear
But darling, what are we doing here?

[Outro]
(Silence for 4 seconds)
(Whispered) Is it still our home?
(Distant whisper) ...It's a house.