Where We Always Were

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

She peels the paint from the doorframe

Every road bends her back

Tracing the river to its throat

Where the water forgets its name

I followed her through the fever

Through cities that crumble and fold

She said everything here is a loan

And the lender is older than stone

Pre-Chorus

And the drum keeps calling

The drum keeps calling her home

Chorus

She always returns to the source

She always returns to the source

Where we always were

Where we always were

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, back to the well

Oh-oh, back to the well

Verse 2

I watched her dissolve into morning

A birth and a burial at once

The circle won't break for the grieving

It just keeps on turning its wheel

Every ending is somebody's cradle

Every cradle is somebody's grave

And she smiles as she steps through the membrane

Like she's finally learned how to stay

Pre-Chorus

And the drum keeps calling

The drum keeps calling her home

Chorus

She always returns to the source

She always returns to the source

Where we always were

Where we always were

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, back to the well

Oh-oh, back to the well

Bridge

Nothing is lost

Nothing is gone

Nothing is lost

Everything stays

Breakdown

Circling, circling, circling home

Circling, circling, circling home

Spinning and spilling and swelling and still

She is the current, the current, the will

Chorus

She always returns to the source

She always returns to the source

Where we always were

Where we always were

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, back to the well

Oh-oh, back to the well

Oh-oh, back to the well

Oh-oh, back to the well