displaced · wistful · invented
A grief without a location — the ache of missing a place that only exists as a feeling, somewhere the body has never been but the soul insists it once called home.
Every Map Leaves This Out
Verse 1
We draw the borders of a room we've never entered
Stand at the edge of streets we learned in sleep
Something in us knows the angle of a window
The weight of air we haven't learned to breathe
Chorus
We are homesick for the invented
For the country with no name on any page
We grieve the door we've never opened
We mourn the life we never lived to age
How do we miss what we've never touched
How does the absence feel like this much
Verse 2
We trace the outline of a voice we haven't heard yet
We recognize a face that doesn't exist
The body keeps a record of a different version
Of all the seasons we were somehow missed
Bridge
Maybe we are mourning futures
Maybe we are mourning past
Maybe we were always reaching
For a place too wide to grasp
And still we pack for it, we plan for it
We learn the word for rain in languages
We'll never speak out loud
Outro
We are missing something nameless
We have always missed it
We will miss it still
Instrumental Outro
How did it make you feel?
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