How To Return Home
Music by
Brian Lowdermilk
Lyrics by
Kait Kerrigan
Steady pop
Your bare feet slid - ing on the old wood
ood - en floo
floorr - boar
boards
ds,, Home just as
as yo
you left
colla voce sempre legato
it but still you're sha - ke
ken, Like walk - ing in - to a mu - se - um
u m some - how out of
Copyright 2008 by Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk.
Lowdermilk. All rights reserved.
How To Return Home - 2
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time. It's all the same ex - cept the
a tempo
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girl in the hall - way, Where she's been and who she will ri - pen in - to,
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Your child hood's on the oth - er side of a sprawl - ing di - vide
20
too wide. Take a si - lent breath.
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How To Return Home - 3
23
Hold in the change. Tell your - self you still live here.
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Take your bags up - stairs. It's the on - ly way you'll get through
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to - day. Count the hou - rs. Take a show - er.
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Wash your - self a - way.
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How To Return Home - 4
35 Pushing forward
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The house is puls - ing with an a - li - en heart - beat,
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Was it al - ways here but you nev - er list- ened? It's call - i ng you to be the
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girl that you were way back then a - gain.
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How To Return Home - 5
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Take a si - lent breath. Hold in the change.
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Tell your - self you still live here. Take your bags up - stairs.
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Put a - way your clothes, Take it nice and slow.
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Be their daugh - ter. Noth-ing's hard - er when no - bo - dy knows
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How To Return Home - 6
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How to re - turn home.
cresc.
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How to re - turn home And
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how to sur - vive, There's no writ - ten guide - lines. How t o go back, How t o
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show up and un - pack. How to show up. How to grow up.
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How To Return Home - 7
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How to take a breath.
73
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Take a si - lent breath. Hold in the change. Tell your - self you
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still live here. Take your bags up - stairs. You still share
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How To Return Home - 8
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a name But you're not the same. You don't fight it.
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You don't hide it. It's a whole new game
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of how to re - turn home. How to re - turn
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home. How to re - turn home.
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How To Return Home - 9
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How to re - turn home.
dim. e rit.
97
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Your bare feet slid - ing on the old wood - en floor - boards,
colla voce
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Home just as you left it but still you're shak - en.
rit.
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