Lyrics of close to home by Shi Yixin

Lay your head where they hold

Hide the demarcations of your soul

And play your silent scream role

Harmonize your own worth to what you’re shown

Normalized and nowhere close to home

Claim the truth that gets lost

In the miles of memory and open folds

So change these rules and let’s cross

All the sacred boundaries we’ve overgrown

Build a brave new foundry close to home

Here’s unbroken bone

It’s a psalm from the book of lies

Language you don’t recognize as part of your own

Leave that alone

Leave that alone

This is the taste you were forever chasing

There is no way to contain it when it comes to set

You off

Accept the shame on some shaky basis

Admit that you were mistaken about it after all

But oh the ache, the fantasy forsaken

The alien and adjacent you would give anything to

Take off

This is the claim that you’ll keep on making

This is the point of the breaking

Here it comes to set you off

We won’t be sold

Any song from your book of lies

Language we don’t recognize as part of our own

Leave us alone

Leave us alone

Pay them all to sign on

Diagnose some fault line most will know

And raise your life a new dawn

Tyrant of your cells now overthrown

Never have you felt so close to home