What the song is about
The singer walks through their home, room by room: the hallway, the kitchen, the living room, the bathroom and the bedroom. In each room they do something ordinary, like opening the fridge, washing their hands or reading a book. The chorus says that home is safe and warm, a shelter from bad weather. The bridge adds a bigger idea: a home is not about the building but about peace, family and friends.
Useful words and expressions
Rooms: hallway, kitchen, living room, bathroom, bedroom
Furniture and things: fridge, table, sofa, chair, television, carpet, mirror, bed, wardrobe (a tall cupboard for clothes), lamp, pictures on the wall, furniture (an uncountable noun: say some furniture, not a furniture)
Actions:
- open up the door: open the door (up adds an informal, friendly feeling)
- step inside: walk in
- walk into the kitchen, go into the bathroom: move into a room
- wash my hands and face
- turn on the lamp: switch on a light (the opposite is turn off)
- over there: in that place, a little far from you
- a shelter from the rain, a hideout from the storm: a safe place where bad weather cannot reach you
- Home is where the heart is: a well-known saying. Home is the place you love, not just a building.
- cozy: warm and comfortable (British English spells it cosy)
- every single corner: single makes every stronger, so it means really every corner
- when the long day ends: in the evening, after a busy day
Grammar
- Present simple for routines: I open, I walk, I go, I read. The singer describes things they usually do. With he or she, add -s: she opens, he goes.
- Prepositions of movement and place: into the kitchen (movement), at the table, on the wall, across (from one side to the other).
- Relative clauses with where: the place where I know I am well, the bedroom, where I go to sleep. Use where to say more about a place.
- so + adjective: so safe and so warm makes the adjectives stronger.
- It's not about…: It's not about the building means the building is not the important thing.
Careful: words bent for the rhyme
- right across the bridge is there only to rhyme with fridge. There is no bridge in a home, so the line does not really make sense. Do not use it to describe a room.
- a wardrobe very deep rhymes with sleep. In normal English the adjective comes before the noun: a very deep wardrobe.
- the place where I know I am well is unusual. I am well normally means I am healthy. To talk about a home, people say the place where I feel good or where I feel at home.