How To Return Home

 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

[Outro]
 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