[Verse 1] I used to count the days behind me Measure everything I’d lost Holding pieces of my old life Wondering what the journey cost Every street felt unfamiliar Every face was someone new I spent so much time looking backward I almost missed what I was walking through [Pre-Chorus] Years can pass without you noticing Until one ordinary day You look around and suddenly realize Everything has changed [Chorus] Somewhere between the crowded sidewalks And all the dreams I chased along I stopped asking where I came from And started knowing where I belong Somewhere between the city lights And every lesson life had shown This place stopped feeling borrowed And slowly started feeling like home [Verse 2] There were coffee shops and photographs Friends I never planned to find Conversations that became memories Without announcing they were mine A newsroom full of familiar faces A city that knew my name And little moments I never noticed Until I saw how much I’d changed [Pre-Chorus] The years had written quiet chapters While I was busy moving on And suddenly I saw the story That had been growing all along [Chorus] Somewhere between the crowded sidewalks And all the dreams I chased along I stopped asking where I came from And started knowing where I belong Somewhere between the city lights And every lesson life had shown This place stopped feeling borrowed And slowly started feeling like home [Bridge] I thought home was something left behind Across an ocean far away Something I could only visit In old photographs someday But home was never lost to distance Never carried by a place alone I brought Albania with me In my memories In my stories In my heart And somehow While holding on to where I’d been I built somewhere new to start [Final Chorus] Somewhere between the crowded sidewalks And all the dreams I chased along I stopped asking where I came from And started knowing where I belong Somewhere between the city lights And every lesson life had shown This place stopped feeling borrowed And finally felt like home Somewhere between the life I’d left And the life I’d come to know I discovered Home was never one place It was every place Love had grown [Outro] The city moved around me Cars passed People hurried by The same way they always had Nothing about New York was different Only me For the first time I wasn’t visiting I wasn’t searching I wasn’t trying to become someone I was already becoming her And standing there beneath the city lights I smiled Because after all those years I finally knew Where I belonged
