You Can Always Come Home

[Verse 1] They told me when I was small You can always come home No matter how far you fall You can always come home But the house where I learned to dream Got sold when the money ran thin And the street where I used to play Has towers where gardens had been [Chorus] You can always come home That's what they said You can always come home But home is dead The promise they made Was a beautiful lie You can always come home But home said goodbye [Verse 2] She was my shelter and light You can always come home In her arms everything felt right You can always come home But cancer came stealing her breath And took my safe harbour away Now I'm lost in the wreckage of grief With nowhere to anchor and stay [Chorus] You can always come home That's what they said You can always come home But home is dead The promise they made Was a beautiful lie You can always come home But home said goodbye [Verse 3] The landlord came knocking one day Said I had to move on Twenty years in this place But the lease had withdrawn Now I sleep in my car at night And I shower at the gym While the city pretends not to see How the promise grew thin [Bridge - sombre and slow] When the walls have all crumbled down And the people have gone When there's nowhere to turn around And you're left on your own There's still something that lives in your chest A warmth that won't die The idea of home that you carry Like stars in the sky [Verse 4] So maybe they weren't wrong Maybe home never left Maybe it lives in this song In the hope that I kept In the memory of safety In the dream of return You can always come home To the comfort you've earned [Chorus - gentler, with growing hope] You can always come home Not to places or people You can always come home To the idea that's equal To the love that you carry To the hope that survives You can always come home To the home that's inside [Outro] You can always come home You can always come home When you've got nothing left You can always come home [END]