Em C
Your bare feet sliding on the old wooden floorboards
G D
Home just as you left it but still you're shaken
Em C A
Like walking into a museum somehow out of time
Em C
It's all the same except the girl in the hallway
G D
Where she's been and who she will ripen into
Em C A D
Your childhood's on the other side of a sprawling divide too wide
[Chorus]
Em
Take a silent breath
C
Hold in the change
G
Tell yourself you still live here
D Em
Take your bags upstairs
C G
It's the only way youâll get through today
D
Count the hours
Em
Take a shower
A Eb Eb Em C G D
Wash yourself awa-------y
[Verse 2]
Em C
The house is pulsing with an alien heartbeat
G D
Was it always here but you never listened?
Em C A D
It's calling you to be the girl that you were way back then again
[Chorus 2]
Em
Take a silent breath
C
Hold in the change
G
Tell yourself you still live here
D Em
Take your bags upstairs
C G
Put away your clothes, take it nice and slow
D
Be their daughter
Em
Nothingâs harder
A
When nobody knows
Ebmaj7 Eb
How to return home
How to return home
F
And how to survive
Thereâs no written guidelines
Dm Bb
How to go back
How to show up and unpack
Eb
How to show up
F
How to grow up
Bb Eb Bb F Gm Eb Bb
How to take a bre----e eath
[Bridge]
Gm
Take a silent breath
Eb
Hold in the change
Bb
Tell yourself you still live here
F Gm
Take your bags upstairs
Eb
You still share a name
Bb
But you're not the same
[Otro]
F
You don't fight it
G5
You don't hide it
Gb Ab Gb
Itâs a whole new game of how to return ho--me
Ab Gb Ab Gb
How to return ho--me
Ab Gb F
How to return home
N.C. Gm Eb Bb F
How to return ho o ome
Gm Eb
Your bare feet sliding on the old wooden floorboards
Bb F
Home just as you left it but still you're shaken