Come home

*(Intro - distant piano notes with subtle rain sounds, low atmospheric synth)*

**Faded memories... slipping through my fingers...**

## Verse 1

All those little moments, now just ghosts in empty frames

Your laughter echoes softer as these hollow days remain

Lost in whatever numbs you, drowning out your pain

I watch your light dim slowly, like sunshine in the rain

Your eyes don't shine like they used to, vacant stares instead

Chasing something that's killing you, leaving your soul unfed

I lie awake remembering who you were before

When your smile wasn't borrowed from whatever's at your door

## Chorus

Come home, the shadows are growing longer

Come home, before the ties grow weaker

These broken pieces of you, scattered in the night

Come home, before you fade from sight

Come home...

## Verse 2

I'd give anything to erase the words that cut too deep

The silence between us now, a promise we couldn't keep

You were my compass, my shelter in the storm

Now you're a stranger I recognize, familiar yet transformed

Mom still sets your place at dinner, hope wrapped in denial

Staring at her phone in silence, forcing a fragile smile

Wonder if you're somewhere cold, or if you're breathing still

This emptiness you've left behind, nothing else can fill

## Chorus

Come home, the shadows are growing longer

Come home, before the ties grow weaker

These broken pieces of you, scattered in the night

Come home, before you fade from sight

Come home...

## Verse 3

Blood isn't just a word we use, it's the truth we bear

Even when you pushed us away, even when you weren't there

This house feels hollow without your footsteps down the hall

Your nephew asks about you, I don't know what to say at all

His eyes remind me of yours, before the darkness came

I see your childhood innocence, before life changed the game

There's a space that waits for you, that only you can claim

Nobody wants to speak it, but we all feel the same

## Bridge

*(instruments fade to almost nothing, just soft piano)*

Remember when we were invincible, when pain was just a word?

Before all these fractures between us, before vision blurred

I reach for those memories some nights when sleep won't come

Wondering where you wander, why you're still running from home

## Verse 4

This door remains unlocked, your room just as you left

Time suspended in your absence, all of us bereft

We're still here holding space for all you're meant to be

Not who you've become, but who you are beneath

Forgiveness isn't something earned, it's already yours

Healing isn't linear, but begins when you walk through doors

That lead you back to family, back to solid ground

Where love remains unbroken, where you can be found

## Chorus

Come home, the shadows are growing longer

Come home, before the ties grow weaker

These broken pieces of you, scattered in the night

Come home, before you fade from sight

Come home...

## Outro

*(piano notes becoming more sparse,)

We're still waiting... doors open,come home..