Look at What We Built

Brick by brick
Stone by stone
Oh oh
Look at what we built

We signed the lease
With a pen running dry
Carried every box
Up the stairwell in the middle of July

Oh oh

No money for the velvet chairs
Back then
Just a mattress on the floor
And a couple of dares back then

We painted over scuff marks
On the living room wall
Learned how to stand
Before we learned not to fall

Some people swore
The foundation was weak
They never heard the language
We were learning to speak

Brick by brick
And stone by stone
We made a kingdom
Out of the unknown

Through the fire
Through the rust
Look up

Look at what we built
Look up
Still standing
In the pouring rain

Brick by brick
We made a shelter
Two tired hands
Became a home

Oh oh
Look what we built
Brick by brick
Stone by stone

Oh oh
Look what we built
This love became a home

There are cracks along the ceiling
Where the house has settled in
Fights we had to lose
And compromises we had to win

Every quiet apology
Is mortar in the brick
Every kitchen conversation
Makes the walls grow thick

The glossy magazines
Can keep their plastic gleam
We're living in the beautiful mess
Of the dream

Ten winters leaning
On the same brave door
The hinges sing a little
But they hold like before

Brick by brick
And stone by stone
We made a kingdom
Out of the unknown

Through the fire
Through the rust
Look up

Look at what we built
Look up
Still standing
In the pouring rain

Brick by brick
We made a shelter
Two tired hands
Became a home

Oh oh
Look what we built
Brick by brick
Stone by stone
Stone by stone

Oh oh
Look what we built
This love became a home
Became a home

We built this
We built this
Oh oh

Say it for the mattress
On the floor
We built this

We built this
We built this
Oh oh

Say it for the pen
That wouldn't pour
We built this

Who held the ladder
We held the ladder
Who fixed the roof
We fixed the roof

Who kept the promise
We kept the promise
Who made it through
We made it through

Who paid the winter
We paid the winter
Who kept the light on
We kept the light on

Who carried the winter
We carried it home

When the next hard season
Comes howling down our street
We'll stand inside the doorway
With the storm beneath our feet

Two names in the wet cement
One light above the stairs
We know the strength
Of what we built inside

Say it once
What we built knows how to stand

Look at what we built
Look up
Still standing
In the pouring rain

Brick by brick
We made a shelter
Two tired hands
Became a home

Not perfect
Not polished
Still standing still

Brick by brick
Stone by stone
We held the ladder
Look at what we built