Cowboykicks
When You Arrive
This is a raw and intimate piano ballad about finding healing through love. It captures the transition from the struggle of anxiety and loneliness to finding peace and "coming home" in someone else's presence.
Cowboykicks · Nattarkiv Studio
Lyrics
The plate stays full but the stomach is cold
A bitter story that's getting old
I watch the clock but the hours don't move
Just a ghost in a worn out groove
My mind is a carousel spinning too fast
Searching for a peace that's built to last
The sheets are a cage in the middle of night
Sweating in shadows and fearing the light
The noise in my head is a deafening roar
Clawing for air on a locked up floor
No rest for the heart, no sleep for the brain
Just a steady rhythm of internal rain
But then you arrive like the end of a storm
And the frozen parts of my soul feel warm
The static clears and the world turns still
I'm eating again by the strength of your will
It's a quiet grace, a love so deep
That finally lets the broken sleep
No pills, no noise, no hollow advice
Just the heat of your skin melting the ice
The hunger returns and the colors come back
Tracing the light through the widest crack
Cause you arrive like the end of a storm
And the frozen parts of my soul feel warm
The static clears and the world turns still
I'm eating again by the strength of your will
It's a quiet grace, a love so deep
That finally lets the broken sleep
The spinning has stopped
The morning is kind
Finally home
Finally home