[Intro] [Indian drone] [sitar melody] [distant male vocal] Yeah... Different roads... Same blood. Home ain't always a place. [Verse 1] [Indian male rap] [deep 808, tabla groove] I learned about life where the streets don't sleep, Where the horns talk loud and the roots run deep. Mama said, “Son, keep your feet on ground,” Even when the whole world loves your sound. I saw gold, I saw dust, same road, same day, Saw a man with nothing still give some away. That's when I learned what being rich could mean— It ain't what you own, it's the hands you keep clean. [sitar response] I had dreams bigger than the room I knew, So I packed that hope and I carried it through. New cities, new faces, new names on my phone, But the further I went... The more I knew home. [Pre-Chorus] [bansuri flute] [half-sung male vocal] Miles behind me... Miles to go... Wherever life takes me, One thing I know... [Chorus] [layered Indian male vocals] [tabla + 808 + wide strings] I CARRY HOME... Wherever I go. In every scar, In everything I know. I CARRY HOME... Deep in my soul. You can change my road... But you can't change where I'm from. [Post-Chorus] [sitar and bansuri answer] [vocal chant] Where I'm from... Where I'm from... Yeah... I carry home. [Verse 2] [confident English rap] [dhol accents] Now the nights move fast and the lights shine bright, Everybody wants a name underneath those lights. But I've seen what happens when applause gets loud— You start hearing the room and forgetting your crowd. So I call my father when my head gets high, Hear the same calm voice from another sky. He don't ask what I made, what I bought, who knows— First thing he says... “Are you good in your soul?” [brief tabla break] That's the weight of a name that money can't buy, That's the truth I carry when the numbers climb. I can cross every border, chase every goal, But success means nothing... If it costs me my soul. [Pre-Chorus] [bansuri rising] Miles behind me... Miles to go... Wherever life takes me, One thing I know... [Chorus] [full Indian hip-hop groove] I CARRY HOME... Wherever I go. In every scar, In everything I know. I CARRY HOME... Deep in my soul. You can change my road... But you can't change where I'm from. [Bridge] [808 drops out] [tabla heartbeat] [sitar solo] Home is my mother's voice. My father's hands. The ones who knew my name Before the world ever did. Home is not behind me... I brought it with me. [Final Verse] [rap gradually intensifies] So if tomorrow puts my name up in the sky, I'll remember every door that let me inside. Every hand on my shoulder, every lesson I hold, Every story worth more than a pocket of gold. I'm not running from the place where the journey began, Every mile made the boy into who I am. Let the whole world change, let the whole world know— I didn't leave home... I learned how to carry it wherever I go. [Final Chorus] [Indian strings] [full tabla, dhol and 808] [layered male vocals] I CARRY HOME... Wherever I go. In every scar, In everything I know. I CARRY HOME... Deep in my soul. You can change my road... But you can't change... Where I'm from. [Outro] [sitar melody alone] Different roads... Same blood. Same home.
