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(Should title be Away From Home?)

This used to be home. (5 syllables so 5 notes to sing) (Sounds like she's already home again so in the chorus I'd say, Time to COME home) If you want a longer line you could say, THIS LITTLE TOWN USED TO BE HOME 8 syll)
I turned my back and walked away (8 syllables)
And left my home behind. (6) (And left my LONGTIME home behind 8 syl)
Walked away as fast as I could. (8 syll. but she walked away in the 2nd line already so you could say something else here, I FORGOT as fast as I could, or something)
Telling no one the secret I kept within. (11 syllables. Could drop I KEPT, 9 syll)
(Told no-one the secret within. 8 syl)
CHORUS
It's time, time to COME home. (6) (time FOR US to COME..would be 8 syll)
THE years away have been so long, (8)
A lifetime even, her lifetime, (8)
away from you, Away From Home. (8)

The lights of home SHINE in her eyes (8)
AND HAVE since the day she was born. (8)
She has your smile, your laugh, (6) (Could say, has YOUR EYES, your smile...)
Things I thought I'D LONG left behind. (8)
Behind in my lifeTIME, (6) (These shorter lines work here)
Away From Home. (4)

REPEAT CHORUS

I'm coming home to you. (7) (We're coming home to be with you (8)
Bringing the past with me. (7) (Bringing the past to its old home (8)
Returning to where her life started. (9)
I've been away from home too long. (10)
I need to be back home. (6)

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