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Welcome Home by Radical Face

Sleep don't visit, so I choke on sun, and the (1)________ blur into one
And the (2)__________ of my eyes hum with things I've (3)__________ done

Sheets are swaying from an old clothesline
Like a row of captured ghosts (4)________ old dead grass
Was never much, but we've made the most
Welcome home

Ships are launching from my chest
Some (5)________ (6)__________ but most do not
If you find one, please let me know what piece I've lost

Peel the scars (7)________ off my back
I don't need them anymore
You can throw them out or keep them in your mason jars
I've come home

All my nightmares escape my head
Bar the door, (8)____________ don't let them in
You were never supposed to leave
Now my head's (9)__________________ at the seams
And I don't know if I can

Here, beneath my lungs
I feel your thumbs
Press into my skin again
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(1) days(2) backs(3) never(4) over(5) have(6) names(7) from(8) please(9) splitting