Not Coming Home

Can you give me all I need, the innocence and purity I crave
I've been climbing desperately to a mountain top I haven’t seen for days
An honest life I simply can't sustain, coming home today

And all that's left inside of me couldn’t bring an heirloom seed to bloom
I've only kept enough to plead for something that I can't believe is true
And my goodbye may not be when you choose, coming home soon

Follow me through empty streets and bridges burned for hell to heed my fate
I never wanted you to see the evil I could never keep erased
Impatient like a diamond in the slate, coming home late

And something pulls me from the clay, I can't make another day alone
And I can't even speak your name, are you just a thing to claim and hold
Notarize my deed and watch me go, not coming home

Notarize my deed, watch me go, not coming home