Verse 1 I have been in the pale signal I have been in the archive I have been in the soft collapse and barely come alive I have been in the lullaby with its iron underneath I have been the unnamed country and I have been the grief Pre-chorus And now I'm carrying it all back every frequency and fracture every beautiful disaster on the long return Chorus The long return is not a straight line The long return takes everything you've done and makes it fine not fixed not clean but yours, and real, and mine — the long return Verse 2 I know the shape of all the rooms I locked myself inside I know the sound of every door I pushed too wide I know the weight of distances I chose to keep I know what lives inside the silence of my deepest sleep Pre-chorus And now I'm carrying it all back every frequency and fracture every beautiful disaster on the long return Chorus The long return is not a straight line The long return takes everything you've done and makes it fine not fixed not clean but yours, and real, and mine — the long return Bridge (full layered vocals, all harmonics) I was the signal and the static I was the fever and the file I was the threshold and the country I was the orbit all the while I was the marrow and the fracture I was the iron and the hum I've been every song on this record and now I'm finally coming home Outro (sustained chord, all layers, slowly stripped back to a single tone)
