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STOP RUNNING
[Intro | almost whispered]
There are some places
you leave…
and some places
that leave you.
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[Verse 1]
I carried whole cities in my throat
Static voices, flickering ghosts
Every window looked like escape
Every love felt borrowed
I learned how to disappear beautifully
Smile like neon over rain
Keep my hands busy
So my heart wouldn’t say your name
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[Pre-Chorus]
Everybody said
“go find yourself”
Nobody warned me
how many versions would die on the way
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[Chorus]
’Cause home isn’t where you’re born
It’s where you stop running
Where the silence finally
stops hunting you back
Home is a cracked light in the kitchen
Someone saying “you can stay”
A body unclenching after years
of living like a getaway car
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[Drop / Ambient Hook]
Stop running
Stop running
The night already knows your name
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[Verse 2]
I’ve slept beside strangers and memories
Confused survival for love
Turned pain into personality
And called it growing up
Every road I took to freedom
Still curved back into me
Like no matter how far I vanished
My shadow paid the fee
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[Bridge | cinematic expansion]
Maybe home was never a place
Maybe it was permission
To be unfinished
And still be held
Maybe peace sounds less like fireworks
More like keys dropped on a table
At the end of a long night
Knowing you came back alive
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[Final Chorus | bigger, emotional release]
Home isn’t where you are born
It’s where your pulse slows down
Where your past can sit beside you
Without burning the whole house down
Home is not the blood in your veins
Or the town on your passport
It’s the first place your soul
doesn’t reach for the exit anymore
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[Outro]
I stopped running
and the world stopped chasing me.
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