A Way Back Home (Live at the Roanoke Civic Center) (Cover) (Cover) (Cover)

[Intro – soft overdriven guitar with ambient pad, low drum heartbeat] (yeah...) (yeah... yeah...) [guitar riff builds slowly, delay on lead] I been walkin’ through the ash Of my own past Like a ghost in a mirror I broke to make it last (can’t unshatter what I chose…) [drum hits in – tom groove, warm tape saturation] It’s a long damn road Just to find a way back home [Verse 1 – steady groove, vocal ride above palm-muted chords] Left breadcrumbs in my bloodstream Every loss still flickers in the in-between I sip memory like morphine Pain don’t fade—it just warps things (what I lost became my guide...) Swallowed pride, hollow on the side Talkin' to shadows That smiled when they lied Fog so thick Been livin’ inside I’m a passenger Inside my own denial [Pre-Chorus – echo guitar swells, drums pull back] (how many nights can I beg the unknown...) Before I’m just bones (who did I become when I walked alone?) Not just a road— It’s a requiem tone [Chorus / Hook – full band kicks in, chorus pedal, layered harmonies] I’m lookin’ for a way back— Not to a place But the me I lacked Through storms, through cracks (where the silence answers back...) Every mile’s a scar I own I carve ‘em till they glow like chrome I’m not lost, I’m just atoned— Still searchin’ For a way back home [Instrumental break – crunchy chord riff with rising tremolo lead] [Verse 2 – clean verse tone, tight drum shuffle] I ain’t tryna rewind what I buried But the past still dances Like it’s married To the pain I tried to outgrow (ghosts don’t go—they just echo...) Every friend now a phantom flick Every plan just a fire I lit Tryna light the dark With what I quit But it’s cold when regret won’t sit [Bridge – vocal drift over descending riff, saturated slapback delay] I keep hearin' my name in the silence But it’s mine said backwards in defiance Palindrome of broken guidance Home ain’t a place— It’s alignment [Final Chorus / Hook Variant – slowed tempo, double-tracked vocals] I’m diggin’ through time like it’s stone For a version of me I disowned Every detour wrote its poem (in the language of the alone...) Now I walk with my pain in chrome Turn my past to a milestone I ain’t lost, I just outgrown— Still learnin’ what it means To find a way back home... [Outro – ambient reverb tail, guitar fades out slowly] (yeah...) (one day...) I’ll know...