Return To Myself

[Verse 1]
We picked out names
For kids that never came
Framed a life in picture frames
That I took down in one bad week
Your sweater by the door
Coffee stains on the floor
Tiny ghosts in every drawer
I kept pretending I could sleep
[Pre-Chorus]
I used my whole heart
As a bandage for yours
Til I was bleeding
On the bathroom tile
Pulled every promise
Like glass from my skin
Asked my reflection
“Was any of it mine?”
[Chorus]
I return to myself
When the pieces stop fitting your shape
When the bed feels too big
But at least it’s my name that I say
I thought you were the ending
Now you’re just part of the tale
I lost us
I lost heaven
But I found my own hands on the rail
I return to myself
[Verse 2]
Learning how to cook
For one and call it good
Talk to friends the way I should
Instead of checking if you wrote
Buying my own flowers
Staying in for hours
Fixing what is mine to power
Planting roots in my old hope
[Pre-Chorus]
I wear my old scars
Like a necklace of stars
Proof that I’ve walked
Through a darker sky
I trace every fault line
That runs through my chest
And whisper softly
“This breaking made space for the light”
[Chorus]
[Bridge] [low vocal register]
I can miss you
And still choose me
Two truths fighting
In the same heartbeat
But every sunrise
Over this new place
Puts a little more color
Back in my face
[Chorus]

Slow-bloom pop ballad building into an anthemic mid-tempo. Start with intimate piano and breathy female vocals, subtle pads underneath. Pre-chorus adds warm bass and soft snaps; chorus opens with wide drums, atmospheric guitars, and stacked harmonies on the hook. Final chorus lifts with octave vocals, airy ad-libs, and a long, shimmering reverb tail on the last word., healing