There may be some things about me   Things you don't want to hear   For the rumors that precede me   May be very true I fear      They tell you I will deceive you   I don't know how to care   Though my intentions might be good   There's another darker look beware      When you walk through the door   Hang on to your senses   At best you must assume   It's a house of many rooms      Some rooms are filled with pleasure   Laughter and love and light   All the things you never see   I keep under lock and key at night      When you walk through the door   Hang on to your senses   At best you must assume   It's a house of many rooms      If you love me in the light   Love me in the shadow   I'm afraid you must assume   It's a house of many rooms   Oh, a house of many rooms      It's a house that's so unstable   There are those who recommend   If they'd the strength and they were able   It ought to be condemned      I don't agree but I will warn you   At best you must assume   I live in a house of many rooms      Here I'm in the library   Trying to understand   What empowers this behavior   Degenerates the man      The same apartment later   With the bottle half consumed   I see a house of many rooms      In the parlor I'm your father   Who could ask for more   The bedroom compromise me   With your best friend from next door      In the kitchen being honest   The lounge, a lying tongue   (I live in a house of many rooms)   Locked in the bathroom   Pretending to be young      Oh, the chapel finds me kneeling   Praying for my soul   The painting in the attic   Can't prevent me growing old      Help me live forever, silent as a tomb   I live in a house of many rooms      Join me at the dining table   Join me at the feast   Join me in the stable   I'm laying with the beast      You're walking in the garden   Oblivious who'd know?   (I live in a house of many rooms)   I'm in the cellar ready to explode   (I live in a house of many rooms)