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Homes With Open Doors

[Verse 1]

Kitchen table

Chipped blue paint

Tiny TV

Evening saints

News is showing burning skies

I mute the sound

Still hear the cries

[Pre-Chorus]

I pour some tea

My hands still shake

How many hearts can one war break?

I trace a map with fingertip

Every border feels like a rip

[Chorus]

Homes with open doors

That’s all we’re asking

Four walls

One roof

A laugh

A light

World full of faces that aren’t afraid of morning

Every single smile still shining at night

Homes with open doors

That’s all we’re asking

Room on the couch when the day’s gone wrong

We could trade these guns for blankets and for stories

Hear that quiet peace in a neighbor’s song

[Verse 2]

Playground swings with rust and rope

Kids still chase their little hopes

Sharing apples

Trading names

They don’t know these grown-up games

[Pre-Chorus]

If they can share the only ball

Why can’t leaders share it all?

Paper flags and paper crowns

Why they weigh these children down?

[Chorus]

[Bridge]

One bed for every tired soldier

One coat for every shivering shoulder

One key for every locked-out heart

One chance to stop

To restart

[low vocal register]

If we all want the same soft things

Why do we tear at tender wings?

[Chorus]