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Welcome Home by Radical Face

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

Sheets are swaying (2)________ an old clothesline
Like a row of captured ghosts over old (3)________ grass
Was never much, but we've (4)________ the most
Welcome home

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

Peel the (7)__________ from off my back
I don't need them anymore
You can throw them out or keep (8)________ in your mason jars
I've come home

All my nightmares escape my head
Bar the door, please don't let them 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 (9)________ your thumbs
Press into my skin again
Answers:
(1) choke(2) from(3) dead(4) made(5) from(6) names(7) scars(8) them(9) feel