Track · Mar 13, 2026 · English

Half a House and a Cedar Tree

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3:39

Language

English

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Woke up to thunder in the quiet

Wind howlin’ like a wounded hound

That old cedar groaned out by the fence line

Then the whole damn world came down

Glass on the quilts your mama stitched

Rain on the stair I carved at twenty-three

Half a roof in the neighbor’s pasture

Half my life lyin’ in the street

[Chorus]

Now there’s just half a house and a cedar tree

Splittin’ right through the middle of my memories

Every nail, every board, every night we slept here free

I built this place with my two hands

Now I’m standin’ in the doorway where the kitchen used to be

Talkin’ to half a house

And that cedar tree

[Verse 2]

Here’s the line where the table used to wobble

Over there’s where we marked the kids’ small names

Found our first-grade pencil scratches

Under broken picture frames

There’s your laugh caught in the busted rafters

There’s my sweat in every crooked beam

Funny how a fallen piece of timber

Can cut a man right out of his own dream

[Chorus]

Now there’s just half a house and a cedar tree

Splittin’ right through the middle of my memories

Every nail, every board, every night we slept here free

I built this place with my two hands

Now I’m standin’ in the hallway where our bed used to be

Talkin’ to half a house

And that cedar tree

[Bridge]

Folks say, “Wood’s just wood, walls are only walls”

But they never heard the way these floors

Used to answer when you’d call

So I’ll sweep up what I can save

Fold the years in a cardboard box

Leave the rest with the roots and the rain

Let the storm have what it already took

[Chorus]

Now there’s just half a house and a cedar tree

Shadow layin’ long across what’s left of me

Every nail, every board, still holdin’ family

I built this place with my two hands

Guess the years did the rest, quiet as can be

Now it’s me and half a house

And that cedar tree

Style

countrydustyslow-burn country balladmale vocals. intimate brushes-on-snare groovesoft upright bassand fingerpicked acoustic guitar carrying the verses. fiddle swells and weeping pedal steel bloom in the choruswith a gentle organ pad underlining the nostalgia. vocal sits warm and closewith a cracked harmony joining on key lines of the hook. sparse dynamic lift on the final chorusthen everything falls back to solo guitar and voice on the last line.sadenglish

Prompt

Sad country song about an old man that’s home was split in half by a great cedar tree that fell because of a bad winter storm. Now reflecting on the lost home that he built with his hands and history.

Credits

Prompt byJakeG

GeneratedMar 13, 2026

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