"Letter From A Hotel" lyrics - THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

Tthe beams we used to build our house are breaking at last
The building will not hold together very much longer
My arms are young, and they can do the work if called upon to do so
But the house itself is weakened and it's tilting on it's axis

In the picture that you sent, I can see the windows getting soft
And I can see the heat had got straight out of hand
I knew that none of this was what you'd been meaning to send along
I did not mean to say what I'm saying now,
If we're going to talk about what our intentions were

But the house itself is weak very weak,
Though you and our three daughters believe in what *you* want to believe

From where I stand, stability is everything
In the room I'm standing in, stability is everything
And in this world, stability is everything
From where I'm standing right now, stability is everything