You Never Go Home Again

[Verse 1] I took the road that shimmered and sighed, Chasing the glow where the daylight died. Thought I’d return to the place I knew, But every mile rewrote the view. [Pre-Chorus] The river still bends, the sky still glows, But I’m a stranger the valley knows. [Chorus] When you travel, when you leave, You never go home again. The porch lights fade into gentle ghosts, And call your name in the wind. The map remembers, the heart pretends, But you never go home again. [Verse 2] The fences lean where the wild grass grows, Carved-in letters have lost their pose. The swing still sways with an unseen friend, A moment caught that will not mend. [Pre-Chorus 2] The breeze turns pages of what we were, Ink of silence, soft and blurred. [Chorus 2] When you travel, when you leave, You never go home again. The corners hum with a faded tune, Of who we were back then. The world keeps turning, the seasons blend, And you never go home again. [Bridge / Drop] Maybe home was never a place, But the heartbeat between each space. Every journey reshapes the shore, Till even the stars aren’t ours anymore. [Final Chorus] When you travel, when you leave, You never go home again. But the memory glows beneath your skin A compass that still knows when. You close your eyes, and there it’s been… The place you can’t go home to again.