© Copyright TongMick Thank you for listening! ♡😽 *************************** Verse 1 She carves a sentence in the paint above her bed, says, “Maybe some kid someday won’t feel this fucked in the head.” They locked her down at seventeen, said “broken, needs repair,” filed her under non-compliant, shaved her heart and cut her hair. Two years countin’ ceiling tiles, fluorescent hum for sun, white coat writes a label on her, calls it treatment, calls it done. Mama signs the papers with a hand that doesn’t shake, says, “We did this for your own good,” while they throw away the key to Intake. Pre-Chorus She seems stronger, that’s the story that they show, but all they want is quiet – not a girl they have to know. Chorus Why go back? Why go home? Why go trust the ones who threw you to the wolves alone? Why go back? Why go home? What they taught you put you here – now you’re better on your own. Why go back? Why go home? Verse 2 She learned the schedule, learned the meds, learned how to fake a calm, learned which nurse would sneak a smoke when lights went out at dawn. She could play pretend and join the crafts, say “yes” and “I’ll comply,” be another patient on the list with vacant TV eyes. But when the ward goes kinda quiet, she can hear the kids next door, another girl just like she was scratching letters in the wall. “Dear whoever’s coming after, if you feel like you’re a freak, don’t you swallow what they feed you – you are not the diagnosis that they speak.” Pre-Chorus They say “stronger” when they really mean “behave,” she walks the line between their order and the girl she wants to save. Chorus Why go back? Why go home? Why go trust the ones who threw you to the wolves alone? Why go back? Why go home? What they taught you put you here – now you’re better on your own. Why go back? Why go home? Bridge What you taught her put her here, what you signed for keeps her in. You don’t visit, you don’t call, you just pray she’ll learn to spin. All the walls are full of letters from the ones who didn’t stay. “Mother, sing it,” she remembers – then the chorus fades away. Final Chorus Why go back? Why go home? Why go trust the ones who threw you to the wolves alone? Why go back? Why go home? What they taught you put you here – now you’re better on your own. Why go back? Why go home? (Repeat) Why go back? (why go home?) Why go home? (why go home?) Why go walk into the fire that you crawled out from before? Why go back? (why go home?) Why go home? (why go home?) What they taught you put you here – she’s not going back no more.
