arias of the annum - come home

FROM MUSIC AND MADNESS II



Maybe it is not the lost and the missing that we long for to come home. But ourselves, that we may find who we are again in the wake of the pain, the tranquil emptiness after the grief has ebbed into its sullen tomb, hibernating for its next opportunity to strike, to remind, to reopen hastily sutured wounds. That for every passing pain of a love lost, we lose a part of ourselves never to be regained. We are pieces of a whole parceled and partial to those who warrant our affection, in the hope that they too would give a bit of themselves to fill what we lack.


A piece of home.


But we cannot come home, for home to us is a concept alien, intangible, and abstract. Until we discover that our home is within, not from without, that it is the absence of the pieces that allows us to be of value, of meaning, and of opportunity. That we can only be a home, if we are one for another.

Come Home

OneRepublic feat. Sara Bareilles

2007, Dreaming Out Loud

Tedder, Ryan;

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Hello world
Hope you're listenin'
Forgive me if I'm young
For speaking out of turn
There's someone I've been missing
And I think that they could be
The better half of me
They're in their wrong place trying to make it right
But I'm tired of justifying
So I say to you

Come home
Come home
Cause I've been waiting for you
For so long
For so long
And right now there's a war between the vanities
But all I see is you and me
The fight for you is all I've ever known
So come home
Oooh

I get lost in the beauty
Of everything I see
The world ain't half as bad
As they paint it to be
If all the sons
All the daughters
Stopped to take it in
Well hopefully the hate subsides and the love can begin
It might start now... Yeahh
Well maybe I'm just dreaming out loud
Until then

Come home
Come home
Cause I've been waiting for you
For so long
For so long
And right now there's a war between the vanities
But all I see is you and me
The fight for you is all I've ever known
Ever known
So come home
Oooh

Everything I can't be
Is everything you should be
And that's why I need you here
Everything I can't be
Is everything you should be
And that's why I need you here
So hear this now

Come home
Come home
Cause I've been waiting for you
For so long
For so long
And right now there's a war between the vanities
But all I see is you and me
The fight for you is all I've ever known
Ever known
So come home
Come home