Bring Me Back

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

I woke up late on a Tuesday

Twenty missed calls from my mother

She said the maple out front came down

Split the porch clean in half

I drove home doing eighty

Past the diner and the old mill

Nothing looked the way I left it

Nothing wanted me back

Pre-Chorus

So I sat on the curb

Watched my father sweep

And I felt like a stranger

In my own street

Chorus

Bring me back bring me back

To the kitchen with the crooked drawer

Bring me back bring me back

To the hum of the screen door

I don't need a mansion

I don't need a crown

Just a chair that still remembers

How I sat down

Verse 2

My sister brought her kids by

Little hands in the wreckage

They found a photo in the rubble

Two kids on a red bike

I laughed until my ribs hurt

Then I cried in the truck bed

Grief is a funny visitor

It knocks and then it stays

Pre-Chorus

So I poured us all a glass

Toasted nothing in particular

And the sun went down slowly

Like it had all the time in the world

Chorus

Bring me back bring me back

To the kitchen with the crooked drawer

Bring me back bring me back

To the hum of the screen door

I don't need a mansion

I don't need a crown

Just a chair that still remembers

How I sat down

Bridge

Time is a thief with gentle hands

Time is a river I can't hold

Time is a song my grandmother sang

Half remembered half gold

Instrumental Break

Chorus

Bring me back bring me back

To the kitchen with the crooked drawer

Bring me back bring me back

To the hum of the screen door

I don't need a mansion

I don't need a crown

Just a chair that still remembers

How I sat down

Chorus

Just a chair that still remembers

Just a chair that still remembers

How I sat down

How I sat down