Returning to Myself Songtext
von Brandi Carlile

Is there some freewheeling watcher
Shootin′ marbles in the sky?
Holdin' your ears between their fingers
Watching it burn ′til the fire dies

Why is it heroic to untether?
How is a lonesome Holy Grail?
And if we really come and go unknown
Couldn't I find myself in jail?

Oh, keeper, how I love you
I love you and you and you
And returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do
But, it's the only thing to do

Is it evolving, turning inward?
Oh, what an easy way to be
Only kneeling at the altar of
The great and mighty me


Let me break myself apart
Instead and scatter to my birds
Like a burial at sea
To be the gospel without words

Oh, my darlings, how I love you
I love you and you and you
And returning to myself
Is such a lonely thing to do
But, it′s the only thing to do

There′s no honor in the pilgrimage
Until a soul returns
To hold another's hand and then
And only then, it learns

That life is like a stone
Only skipping for a time
Oh, it never really holds its own
It′ll never see the other side

And I was born to love you
I love you and you and you
Oh, returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do
Retuning to myself is just retuning me to you
That's the only thing I wanna do