More songs by Yazmin Lacey
Description
The journey takes longer than the maps promised, but at the final destination, it still smells like home. Along the way - a textbook of pine cones and rain: first darkness, then your own sparks, then the grapevine suddenly bestows berries, as if that's how it was always meant to be. Mistakes work as a courier service here - they bring the right answers with a delay and without apologies. The heart takes a beating, but the bruises fade with the rhythm, and warmth begins to break thru again. Music is like shedding your skin on the road: it removes the old skin, gently returns what was lost, and whispers - you didn't go in circles in vain. In the end, it's simple emotional math: "wrong" turned out to be the path to "right," and the longest way unexpectedly became the shortest way to oneself.
Lyrics and translation
Original
If
I never left, how could I return with all of the lessons that I've learned?
Some of them blessings, others a curse, but they got me here.
If maybe I'd known there was an easier way, would I have grown and been open to change?
In the darkness, I built flames that fought my fears.
Maybe I was always coming home, and I just took the longest way around.
I surrendered myself to become someone else. I broke out of my shell to be here.
Took the longest way around.
When you grow, you gotta climb for the light.
And when you do, there'll be fruit on the vine.
'Cause I twisted and turned day and night. It took some time.
It took some time.
My heart took a bruising to get here, but to lose is a grateful tear.
'Cause it rains, then it pours, then it gets clear. Now I'm here.
Maybe I was always coming home, and I just took the longest way around.
I surrendered myself to become someone else. I broke out of my shell to be here.
Took the longest way around.
I got it wrong to get it right.
No regrets, our love is no surprise.
I got it wrong to get it right.
No regrets, our love is no surprise.
Maybe I was always coming home, and I just took the longest way around.
I surrendered myself to become someone else. I broke out of my shell to be here.
Took the longest way around.
Took the longest way around.
Took the longest way around.
Maybe I was always coming home.
I just took the longest way around.