Everybody Here Is From Somewhere Else

Lyrics

Got a mattress on the floor and a borrowed lamp
Four flights up in a city I can't pronounce
The bus drops me off in the morning rain
Every face a stranger, every street a doubt

The girl at the bakery asked where I'm from
I said a little town you never heard of
She laughed and said, me neither, hon
Come on in, there's coffee, there's room

Everybody here is from somewhere else
Carrying their old town in their coat
Everybody's learning how to start again
Singing the same song, just a different note
So raise a glass to the ones who came
With a suitcase and a hope and a name
Everybody here is from somewhere else
And that's what makes it home

I got a job washing dishes by the river
Met a drummer from Ohio on the stairs
We trade our stories like we trade our cigarettes
And by midnight we're all neighbours there

Everybody here is from somewhere else
Carrying their old town in their coat
Everybody's learning how to start again
Singing the same song, just a different note
So raise a glass to the ones who came
With a suitcase and a hope and a name
Everybody here is from somewhere else
And that's what makes it home

I used to think I'd left it all behind
But the road came with me anyway
Turns out a place is just a bunch of folks
Who decided to stay

Everybody here is from somewhere else
Carrying their old town in their coat
Everybody's learning how to start again
Singing the same song, just a different note
So raise a glass to the ones who came
With a suitcase and a hope and a name
Everybody here is from somewhere else
And that's what makes it home

Everybody here, everybody here
Is from somewhere else