[Verse 1]
You know the way we used to talk
With coffee cooling by the sink
She’d draw a world in sidewalk chalk
And ask me what I really think
Now there’s an empty coat downstairs
A purple scarf beside the door
I hold it like a promise there
And wonder what you told her for
[Pre-Chorus]
Did you tell her why the room went still?
Did you tell her love was never gone?
I have carried every broken mile
Waiting for the day she’d come back home
[Chorus]
Bring back my daughter
She’s my heart, my soul, my being
Bring back my daughter
Let her hear the truth I’m speaking
You know how we were bound together
You know the life we made
Bring back my daughter
Don’t let our love be taken away
[Verse 2]
Her schoolbook’s open on the chair
A sentence stops halfway through
I read the same four words in there
And every word leads back to you
I would cross the county line
I would sleep beneath the rain
Just to see her face one time
Just to hold her close again
[Pre-Chorus]
Did you tell her I was calling out?
Did you tell her I was waiting near?
Did you tell her every night I kept
A place for her beside me here?
[Chorus]
Bring back my daughter
She’s my heart, my soul, my being
Bring back my daughter
Let her hear the truth I’m speaking
You know how we were bound together
You know the life we made
Bring back my daughter
Don’t let our love be taken away
[Bridge]
If she thinks I turned my back
Tell her I was reaching through the dark
If she thinks I let her go
Tell her she has never left my heart
No courtroom, no locked gate
Can erase the years we made
Tell her I am standing here
Tell her I am not afraid
[Final Chorus]
Bring back my daughter
She’s my heart, my soul, my being
Bring back my daughter
Let her hear the truth I’m speaking
You know how we were bound together
You know the life we made
Bring back my daughter
Don’t let our love be taken away
Bring back my daughter
I am calling through the silence
Bring back my daughter
Let her know she can rely on me
You know how we bonded
You know you took her away
Bring back my daughter
Bring her home today
[Outro]
Bring her home today
Bring her home today