Matthew Ryan Brooksher
I Came Back For Me (Single)
“Some journeys don't lead forward. They lead back.”
Out now — stream everywhere
A conversation between the man I became and the boy I almost lost. "I Came Back For Me" is about forgiveness, survival, and finally believing you were worth saving all along.
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I Came Back For Me
I passed my younger self last night
On some road I used to know
He was standing by the wreckage
Like he had nowhere else to goHe said, “I thought you’d come sooner”
I said, “I had to stay alive”
Funny how you can’t rescue someone
Till you both surviveI came back for me
The one I left behind
The boy with both hands shaking
Saying, “Please don’t call this fine”I came back for me
Not the man they thought I’d be
Not the one who learned to disappear
So nobody had to seeI spent years becoming someone
I could finally set free
I came back for meHe still had every question
I pretended I outgrew
Like, “Did we ever make it?”
And, “Did anybody know the truth?”I told him, “There were mornings
We did not want to find
But somehow light kept showing up
Like it had changed its mind”I came back for me
The one I left behind
The boy with both hands shaking
Saying, “Please don’t call this fine”I came back for me
Not the man they thought I’d be
Not the one who learned to disappear
So nobody had to seeI spent years becoming someone
I could finally set free
I came back for meI don’t know if forgiveness
Changes yesterday
Or if it lets you finally
Put the hurt awayI sat beside that younger me
And whispered something true…“You were never hard to love.”
“I just wish you knew.”I came back for me
The one I couldn’t save
The boy who built a home inside
The hurt he never namedI came back for me
And I took him by the sleeve
Said, “You were never hard to love”
“You were just too hard to reach”I spent years becoming someone
I could finally believe
I came back for me
I came back for meI passed my younger self last night
On some road I used to knowThis time when I walked away…
He didn’t have to go alone.
