[Verse 1 – Female Vocal • Soft] Every evening by my window, I would watch your distant light. Far beyond the sleeping harbor, you were somewhere in the night. I could never see your face there, couldn't hear you call my name. But whenever darkness found me, I would wait until it came. One small light across the water. One small promise through the blue. And I never felt alone when I could look and think of you. [Chorus – Female Vocal • Female Choir Almost Weeping] [Female Choir – Fragile] Come home... come home... [Lead] The light still burns across the water. I can see it from the shore. Every night I whispered softly, "Just one winter... nothing more." [Female Choir – Trembling] Come home... come home... [Lead] I have waited through the darkness. I have loved you from afar. And every night that light reminded me... [Female Choir – Breaking] You are there... you are there... [Verse 2 – Warm • Hopeful] You wrote, "This is my final winter. When spring comes, I'll be free." I read those words a hundred times and kept them close to me. I counted every passing morning. I counted every night. Until the day I stood there waiting for your boat to come in sight. I wore the coat you always loved. I waited in the rain. I thought the next time I would see you, I'd never let you leave again. [Pre-Chorus – Fear Rising] Then the wind began to change. The harbor disappeared in grey. Someone said, "A storm is coming." But you were already on your way. [Chorus – Female Vocal • Choir Fracturing] [Female Choir – Pleading] Come home... please come home... [Lead] The light still burns across the water, but I cannot see your boat. I keep staring through the darkness, searching every wave I know. [Female Choir – Tearful] Come home... come home... [Lead] I don't care about the thunder. I don't care how long it takes. Just let me see you in the harbor. Please... [Female Choir – Breaking] Come home... [Verse 3 – Bare Piano] I stayed there until morning. Then morning became day. Men came walking from the harbor. No one knew what they should say. I asked them where they'd found you. No one looked at me. I asked them where your boat was. They only watched the sea. They searched until the daylight faded. Every boat came back alone. And somewhere in the silence... I knew you weren't coming home. [Bridge – Female Vocal • Almost Whispered] Three days later by the shoreline, something drifted through the foam. A broken piece of your small boat was all the sea brought home. I knew the mark you'd carved there. I held the wood against my heart. It was all that I could hold of you... when everything fell apart. [Final Chorus – Female Lead • Choir Almost Crying] [Female Choir – Fragile] Come home... come home... [Lead – Breaking] The light still burns across the water. Someone else is standing there. Someone else now tends your lantern. Someone else now climbs your stairs. [Female Choir – Weeping] Come home... please come home... [Lead] Once that light meant, "You are waiting." Now I know you never will. [Female Choir – Breaking] Come home... [Lead – Almost Whispered] I know you can't. But I still wait beside the water... [Female Choir – Distant] Come home... [Lead – Whisper] Come home.
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