Way Back Home

Album: Playing With Fire (2016)
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  • Gonna need some more gold, workin' as hard as I can
    To build it, my next gilded cage with my own two hands
    I've made some mistakes, I'm gonna make some more
    But I'm clear, they brought me here
    A world worthy of makin' em for

    I'm takin off my armor, already cut to the bone
    The prodigal daughter on her way back home

    Burn the maps to this place, I don't need one anyway
    I can find you by charting the lines to every smile on your glorious face
    The past is behind me always there to remind me
    To haunt me, to scare me, taunt me, to dare me to jump back below

    I'm takin' off my armor, already cut to the bone
    The prodigal daughter on her way back home

    I'm alive and wide awake
    Better that my heart should break
    Than forget how to feel
    So here's to chance and something real

    I belly up and they ask, "girl, what do you have?"
    Take one and double up drown myself in the beautiful struggle of
    A life well-lived and a love worth earning
    And a big heart to give to the one fiery soul who can handle my burning

    I'm takin' off my armor, already cut to the bone
    The prodigal daughter on her way back home
    Way back home

    Gonna need some more gold, workin' as hard as I can Writer/s: Jennifer O Nettles
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