Come Home When You Can
🎵 Come Home When You Can | ELEVATION MUSIC
“Come Home When You Can” is a tender and bittersweet song about aging parents, passing time, and the quiet urgency of returning home before ordinary moments are gone. Through images of a whistling kettle, warm cups, chairs set at the table, folded papers, old jokes, and a child sitting on a grandparent’s knee, the song captures the fragile beauty of family love in life’s smaller rooms. Gentle, nostalgic, and deeply moving, it reminds us that home does not wait forever — and that a simple hour beside those who love us may become one of the most precious gifts we still have time to receive.
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📜 LYRICS:
[Verse 1]
A grey November, the porch is bare
A small white kettle is whistling there
My mother sets the table very slow
And folds the paper like a prayer she knows
[Pre-Chorus]
Her hands are softer than they used to be
The stairs have grown a longer, quieter sound
I bring the boxes that I packed elsewhere
And sit beside her on the smaller ground
[Chorus]
Come home when you can
The kettle's on for you
The cups are warm, the chairs are set
A small white hour or two
Come home when you can
The mornings pass like rain
A window closes slow, my dear
We cannot open it again
[Verse 2]
My father's eyebrows arch at my own son
He tells a joke that he has told before
The boy sits wide-eyed on a folded knee
A photograph inside a quiet door
[Pre-Chorus]
He has not seen me for a quiet while
His eyes still find the boy before the man
The years I missed are in his patient smile
A small white hour we cannot quite remand
[Chorus]
Come home when you can
The kettle's on for you
The cups are warm, the chairs are set
A small white hour or two
Come home when you can
The mornings pass like rain
A window closes slow, my dear
We cannot open it again
[Bridge]
We were too young to love the slower pace
We were too busy being somewhere new
The smallest years are in the smallest rooms
A cup, a chair, a parent, and the few
[Final Chorus - softer]
Come home when you can
The kettle's on for you
The cups are warm, the chairs are set
A small white hour or two
Come home when you can
The mornings pass like rain
A gentler window now remains
A gentler window now remains
[Outro]
The kettle's on...
The chairs are set...
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