2nd Place | “Home Again”

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June 4, 2015 10:29 am

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2^nd Place
“Home Again”
Ryan Harris Brown
Nashville, Tennessee

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can someone take me back
to the place I see in these photographs
to a world that only lives in the past
and in picture frames

because I’m stranded in the present tense
in a rented room bleeding confidence
and I can’t seem to make any sense
of this random day

I wish I was home again
back to the start back to the heart
home again
it was all that I had even when things were bad
I know I grew up there only wishing I could leave
but when you can’t go home again
that’s the one place you want to be

I found a love to call my own
and like me she is far from home
and her parents split up long ago
so she moved away
she says be happy for the things you still have
because you’ll never get what’s gone to come back
just be happy that your mom and dad have found their way

home again
back to the start back to the heart
home again
it was all that I had even when things were bad
I know I grew up there only wishing I could leave
but when you can’t go home again
that’s the one place you want to be

well the world keeps spinning round
there’s no mercy for us here on the ground
some get lost and some get found
looking for the way
home again
home again

can someone take me home again
back to the start back to the heart
home again
it was all that I had even when things were bad
I know I grew up there only wishing I could leave
but when you can’t go home again
that’s the one place you want to be