Come Home Into My Arms

Intro

Soft march of footsteps on a porch we rebuilt, oh-oh

Your hand finds mine like a compass, yeah

(hold me) (hold me)

Verse

We wear the dust the way old maps wear creases

Each scar a longitude, a date, a name

You still hum our children's lullaby between briefings

And I still trace the lines from where the fires came

We traded battlements for bread at dawn

You taught the town to plant roses on the ridge

I learned to read the sky again for kinder weather

And watch you fold our future into silence and a kiss

Pre-chorus

When orders trembled in the dark, you stood up tall

When I forgot the words, you carried every call (you carried every call)

We counted losses like seasons, then counted the dawn

And found a language in the quiet to go on

Chorus

Come home, come home into my arms, oh-oh

Lay down that map, lay down that armor, yeah

Come home, come home into my arms, oh-oh

Stay with me, stay with me, stay with me, stay

Verse

We built a table from the beams that stayed standing

Carved our vows into wood where the children play

You polish medals into buttons on your jacket

Then hide a smile that melts the night away

There are names in our garden on small white stones

We read them soft like prayers between the rain

You say their stories out loud so we will remember

But you keep my name like warmth against your name

Pre-chorus

When the radio still sings of distant thunder, you breathe slow

When I wake up from maps I can’t redraw, you whisper “we know” (we know)

We learned to hold the restless and the brave

Turn broken letters into bread, and find a way

Chorus

Come home, come home into my arms, oh-oh

Lay down that map, lay down that armor, yeah

Come home, come home into my arms, oh-oh

Stay with me, stay with me, stay with me, stay

Bridge

There are mornings we move like careful soldiers of love

Slow and certain, one small step at a time

You press your forehead to mine like a benediction

We trade our stubborn for a softer kind of rhyme

(la-la-la) la-la-la, oh

We will teach the town to laugh again, to sing again

We will plant the seasons back where the fires ran

I will follow you when the road bends low and long

You will follow me when the light comes on

Chorus

Come home, come home into my arms, oh-oh

Lay down that map, lay down that armor, yeah

Come home, come home into my arms, oh-oh

Stay with me, stay with me, stay with me, stay

Chorus

Come home, come home into my arms, oh-oh

Lay down that map, lay down that armor, yeah

Come home, come home into my arms, oh-oh

Stay with me, stay with me, stay with me, stay