You don’t know where you’ve been (before you came back)

You don't know where you've been until you come back

I stepped out into the night, carrying a version of myself

I didn't believe in a shadow with my heartbeat, but none of my memory

The streets bent like questions, the signs pointed everywhere and nowhere

And I followed them because the silence was louder than any direction

I left pieces of myself in corners I don't recall

But something in the wind returned, a quiet reminder of a life I thought I loved

You don't know where you've been until you make it back again

You don't know who you are until you lose yourself in it

You don't know where you've been until you make it back again

Every road you wander down paints your heartbeat on the wind

I found a quiet truth on the edge of an empty street

That the past is just a doorway you can only open after walking through

I saw reflections, I swear weren't mine

Eyes holding stones, I hadn't lived yet

As if time was folding to keep me from breaking

You don't know where you've been until you make it back again

The journey rearranges you and stitches every break within

You don't know where you've been until you make it back again

When the light you return to tells you where you've truly been

You don't know where you've been until you come back