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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 (1)________ hum (2)________ (3)____________ 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 (4)__________ but most do not
If you find one, (5)____________ let me (6)________ what piece I've lost

Peel the scars from off my back
I don't need them anymore
You can throw them out or (7)________ them 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 (8)__________________ at the seams
And I don't know if I can

Here, beneath my lungs
I (9)________ your thumbs
Press (10)________ my skin again
Answers:
(1) eyes(2) with(3) things(4) names(5) please(6) know(7) keep(8) splitting(9) feel(10) into