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Welcome Home by Radical Face

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

Sheets are swaying (4)________ an old clothesline
Like a row of captured ghosts (5)________ old (6)________ grass
Was (7)__________ much, but we've (8)________ the most
Welcome home

Ships are launching from my chest
Some (9)________ (10)__________ but (11)________ do not
If you find one, please let me know what piece I've lost

Peel the scars (12)________ off my back
I don't need them anymore
You can throw (13)________ out or (14)________ (15)________ in your mason jars
I've come home

All my nightmares (16)____________ my head
Bar the door, please don't let (17)________ in
You were (18)__________ (19)________________ to leave
Now my head's (20)__________________ at the seams
And I don't know if I can

Here, beneath my lungs
I (21)________ your thumbs
Press into my (22)________ again
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