Returning To Myself

Album: Returning To Myself (2025)
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  • Is there some freewheeling watcher
    Shooting marbles in the sky?
    Holding your years between their fingers
    Watching it burn till the fire dies

    Why is it heroic to untether?
    How is alone some holy grail?
    And if we really come and go unknown
    Couldn't I find myself in jail?

    Oh, keeper how I love you
    I love you and you and you
    And returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do
    But it's the only thing to do

    Is it evolving turning inward?
    Oh, what an easy way to be
    Only kneeling at the altar of
    The great and mighty me

    Let me break myself apart
    Instead and scatter to my birds
    Like a burial at sea
    To be the gospel without words

    Oh, my darlings how I love you
    I love you and you and you
    And returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do
    But it's the only thing to do

    There's no honor in the pilgrimage
    Until a soul returns
    To hold another's hand and then
    And only then it learns

    That life is like a stone
    Only skipping for a time
    Oh, it never really holds its own
    It'll never see the other side

    And I was born to love you
    I love you and you and you
    Oh, returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do
    Returning to myself is just returning me to you
    And that's the only thing I wanna do Writer/s: Brandi Marie Carlile
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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