When the City Learns Your Name

[Intro] A single piano line in a quiet hall Soft strings holding their breath behind it A distant horn, like memory waking up Everything still, like the moment before decision [Verse 1] I stepped off the train with my hands in my coat Same streets, but they don’t move like I wrote The light on the platform looked older than me Like it’s seen every version I used to be There’s a café that changed its name again But the smell of the rain still knows where I’ve been I don’t say much, I just watch it all land Like the city is trying to understand [Pre-Chorus] And I feel it rising slow in my chest Like the weight of what I never addressed Every corner says I’ve been here before But I don’t run from it anymore [Chorus] I’m coming home, I’m coming home again Where the long road ends and the quiet begins I’m coming home, I’m coming home tonight And I’ll be alright, I’ll be alright I’m coming home, I’m coming home again Let the past fall back like a soft refrain I’m coming home, I’m coming home tonight And I’ll be alright, I’ll be alright [Verse 2] Now I walk past the park where the seasons bent Where we swore that nothing would ever end Your voice still lingers in the evening air Like a chair left empty that used to be there But I don’t reach for what isn’t mine I let it fade with the passing time There’s a calm in the way I finally see Not everything was meant for me [Pre-Chorus] And I feel it settle deep in my bones Like I’m learning how to stand alone Every step feels lighter than before I don’t carry it anymore [Chorus] I’m coming home, I’m coming home again Where the long road ends and the quiet begins I’m coming home, I’m coming home tonight And I’ll be alright, I’ll be alright I’m coming home, I’m coming home again Let the past fall back like a soft refrain I’m coming home, I’m coming home tonight And I’ll be alright, I’ll be alright [Bridge] Let the orchestra rise like a tide in the dark Let it pull every fracture back into heart I don’t need the answers I chased in the night Just the strength to stand in my own daylight If love was a city I couldn’t keep Then peace is the road that belongs to me And I hear it now in the violins A beginning disguised as an end [Final Chorus] I’m coming home, I’m coming home again Where the long road ends and the quiet begins I’m coming home, I’m coming home tonight And I’ll be alright, I’ll be alright I’m coming home, I’m coming home again No more ghosts in the shape of “what might have been” I’m coming home, I’m coming home tonight And I’ll be alright, I’ll be alright [Outro] Piano returns to its first soft line Strings dissolve into open air A final horn fades like distant light And the city lets me go, gently this time