[Verse 1 - walking east, something is missing, she notices] I reach for it the way I always did The pull of dark, the current underneath And there is — nothing No lightning at my fingertips No fog of something seething
I reach again — the lust, the poison, the gaze The architecture of what I was made to be And all I find is — Quiet Clean, unburdened — free
[Pre-Chorus - the shock, then the understanding] And I stop in the middle of the road And I wait for the grief that doesn’t come This isn’t loss I think — I think — This is what they were hiding from
[Chorus - celestial palette opens] I am empty And empty feels like morning I am clean for the very first time I am empty The way a vessel is before it’s filled Something is coming I don’t know what But I am ready And I am homebound
[Verse 2 - the new stirrings, unnamed, unnamed] Where the lightning was — something warmer Where the seduction was — something true Where the poison and the purple used to gather Something else is pressing through
I don’t have a name for what is rising I have never felt this kind of stir But it is not the dark ones that I summoned It’s something I have been waiting for
[Pre-Chorus 2] And I am not afraid of what I don’t know For the first time — not afraid I just keep walking east Toward the cottage Toward home Toward whatever waits
[Chorus] I am empty And empty feels like morning I am clean for the very first time I am empty The way a vessel is before it’s filled Something is coming I don’t know what But I am ready And I am homebound
[Bridge - FULL CELESTIAL CHOIR, transcendent] (choir swells)
This is where she began Before the taking Before the dark Before they buried the light inside The architecture of her heart
She is walking back to the origin Not the wound — the before The version of herself The cottage always kept The version they were afraid of
(choir peaks)
She is coming home She is finally — Coming home
[Final Chorus - she arrives, she is becoming] I am empty And empty feels like dawn I am clean and I am ready For the very first time I am empty The way a vessel is before it’s chosen Something is rising And I don’t need to name it yet I am just —
Homebound
[Outro - she steps inside, the door closes gently] The cottage door The box still on the table Elara’s things, kept safe, kept whole
The east is quiet And something inside me Is waking up Like it always knew I’d find my way back home