[Verse 1] I left a little in Lisbon rain A thread in a stranger’s borrowed name A piece on a train through northern towns A pulse where the harbor lights went down I gave you the part that knew how to stay Gave her the nerve to walk away Gave them a laugh for the long flight home Now every map has a piece of my own [Pre-Chorus] I kept saying I’d gather it back When the roads stopped pulling me off track But the farther I went, the more I knew Each open door was a piece cut loose [Chorus] My heart is scattered everywhere In your coat pocket, her kitchen chair In a voice that calls from a different shore In the hands of the ones I can’t reach anymore I gave it away, and I’m still alive A thousand small sparks, a thousand drives It won’t all come home, and that’s the truth I am made of the places I gave to you [Verse 2] There’s a scar in a café near Rome A blue wristband from a night in Seoul A postcard folded beneath my bed With something kind I was too scared to say I used to call that loss by another name Count every goodbye like a personal blame Now I see the pieces don’t make me less They prove I was there, I said yes [Pre-Chorus] I kept wanting one room, one name One clean border around the flame But love doesn’t fit in a single frame It leaves through the window and signs its name [Chorus] My heart is scattered everywhere In your coat pocket, her kitchen chair In a voice that calls from a different shore In the hands of the ones I can’t reach anymore I gave it away, and I’m still alive A thousand small sparks, a thousand drives It won’t all come home, and that’s the truth I am made of the places I gave to you [Bridge] If you carry a piece, don’t carry the debt You don’t have to promise you won’t forget Let it beat where your life has begun I was never built to belong to one [Final Chorus] My heart is scattered everywhere In your coat pocket, her kitchen chair In the morning trains and the salt-thick air In every person who found me there I gave it away, and I’m still alive Not whole in one place, but wider inside It won’t all come home, and I’m finally free Every piece I gave became part of me [Outro] Somewhere you’re holding what I couldn’t keep Somewhere I’m learning the distance can breathe
