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Welcome Home by Radical Face

Sleep don't visit, so I choke on sun, and the days blur into one
And the backs of my eyes hum (1)________ things I've never done

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

Ships are launching from my chest
Some have (2)__________ but most do not
If you find one, please let me know what piece I've lost

Peel the scars from off my back
I don't (3)________ them anymore
You can throw them out or keep (4)________ in (5)________ mason jars
I've (6)________ home

All my nightmares escape my head
Bar the door, please don't let (7)________ in
You were never supposed to leave
Now my head's splitting at the seams
And I don't know if I can

Here, beneath my lungs
I feel your thumbs
Press into my skin again
Answers:
(1) with(2) names(3) need(4) them(5) your(6) come(7) them