[Intro: lone piano, distant train ambience] [Spoken, low] I always stay until leaving hurts everyone. [Pause] Including me. [Verse 1: intimate, restrained] I learn the walls I learn the names I learn the rituals and little games I make a home I mean it too That’s the cruelest part of what I do I don’t arrive with one foot gone I plant the roots I carry on Then somewhere deep beneath the floor I hear another road Behind another door [Backing Vocals] Stay Go Stay Go [Lead] I wish my heart Would choose one word [Pre-Chorus: drums rising] By the time I know I need to leave There are people Who learned to believe That I was permanent That I was home And I hate the way My truth arrives so slow [Chorus: huge guitars] I BELONG NOWHERE I BELONG EVERYWHERE Every city feels like mine Until I need another air Every love becomes a universe Every road becomes a prayer I give my whole heart Then discover It was never built To stay just there [Verse 2: driving rhythm] I’ve worn careers like favorite coats Built identities from careful notes “This is who I am” “This is where I’ll be” Then six months later There’s another me Another subject Another town Another reason to tear it down Not from boredom Not from spite I just keep seeing Too many possible lives [Backing Vocals] This one! That one! Both! Again! [Lead] How do you commit When every door says “When?” [Pre-Chorus] And the worst part is I love them all The people The places The rise and fall So every pivot leaves a scar Because I never leave Before things matter [Chorus] I BELONG NOWHERE I BELONG EVERYWHERE Every person leaves a room in me Every life leaves something there I want roots I want wings I want contradictory things I give my whole heart Then discover I can’t promise One forever thing [Bridge: drums drop, piano only] [Soft Vocal] Maybe I stayed too long Trying to become Someone who could stay Maybe I confused Consistency With virtue Maybe leaving earlier Would have hurt less [Pause] But I didn’t know. [String swell] I keep thinking The next life will fit The next city The next love The next version of it Then the horizon starts singing again [Drums build] And God help me I still want to listen [Final Chorus: key change] I BELONG NOWHERE I BELONG EVERYWHERE I AM HOME IN EVERY MOMENT UNTIL THE MOMENT NEEDS REPAIR I will break hearts Including mine Trying to outrun A straightened line Maybe I was never built For one road One name One life One design [Choir] Nowhere! Everywhere! [Lead] I don’t know If that’s freedom Or a flaw [Choir] Nowhere! Everywhere! [Lead] I only know I feel the pull Before I know the cost [Final Refrain: music strips back] If I love you Please believe me If I leave you Please believe me too Both can be true And that’s the wound I can mean forever In the moment And still become Someone new [Outro: train sound slowly approaching] [Soft Vocal] I wish I knew How to choose one path [Pause] But every road Still looks like home [Final unresolved chord]
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