*(Intro - distant piano notes with subtle rain sounds, low atmospheric synth)*
**Faded memories... slipping through my fingers...**
## Verse 1
All those little moments, now just ghosts in empty frames
Your laughter echoes softer as these hollow days remain
Lost in whatever numbs you, drowning out your pain
I watch your light dim slowly, like sunshine in the rain
Your eyes don't shine like they used to, vacant stares instead
Chasing something that's killing you, leaving your soul unfed
I lie awake remembering who you were before
When your smile wasn't borrowed from whatever's at your door
## Chorus
Come home, the shadows are growing longer
Come home, before the ties grow weaker
These broken pieces of you, scattered in the night
Come home, before you fade from sight
Come home...
## Verse 2
I'd give anything to erase the words that cut too deep
The silence between us now, a promise we couldn't keep
You were my compass, my shelter in the storm
Now you're a stranger I recognize, familiar yet transformed
Mom still sets your place at dinner, hope wrapped in denial
Staring at her phone in silence, forcing a fragile smile
Wonder if you're somewhere cold, or if you're breathing still
This emptiness you've left behind, nothing else can fill
## Chorus
Come home, the shadows are growing longer
Come home, before the ties grow weaker
These broken pieces of you, scattered in the night
Come home, before you fade from sight
Come home...
## Verse 3
Blood isn't just a word we use, it's the truth we bear
Even when you pushed us away, even when you weren't there
This house feels hollow without your footsteps down the hall
Your nephew asks about you, I don't know what to say at all
His eyes remind me of yours, before the darkness came
I see your childhood innocence, before life changed the game
There's a space that waits for you, that only you can claim
Nobody wants to speak it, but we all feel the same
## Bridge
*(instruments fade to almost nothing, just soft piano)*
Remember when we were invincible, when pain was just a word?
Before all these fractures between us, before vision blurred
I reach for those memories some nights when sleep won't come
Wondering where you wander, why you're still running from home
## Verse 4
This door remains unlocked, your room just as you left
Time suspended in your absence, all of us bereft
We're still here holding space for all you're meant to be
Not who you've become, but who you are beneath
Forgiveness isn't something earned, it's already yours
Healing isn't linear, but begins when you walk through doors
That lead you back to family, back to solid ground
Where love remains unbroken, where you can be found
## Chorus
Come home, the shadows are growing longer
Come home, before the ties grow weaker
These broken pieces of you, scattered in the night
Come home, before you fade from sight
Come home...
## Outro
*(piano notes becoming more sparse,)
We're still waiting... doors open,come home..
WORLDPATTERNZ
