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Come to Normandy

More than a love song to a place, Come to Normandy reflects on what it means to be fully known — revealing how certain landscapes become inseparable from the shape of the soul.

The Scene

Season Early autumn, apple harvest and sea fog

Wearing Chunky knit sweater, salt-air windblown hair

Eating Cider and warm apple tart

Getting Around Coastal drive to watch the tide return at Mont Saint-Michel

Verse 1

Apple trees and chapel bells Stone walls soft with age and rain Morning fog on empty fields And swallows cutting through the gray The coast still keeps a thousand stories Written deep in wind and sea Some places you just visit once Some places somehow visit me

Pre-Chorus

I've seen cities dressed in gold I've chased beauty overseas But nowhere speaks in whispers Quite the way it does to me

Chorus

I could take you anywhere Paris lights or southern seas If you want to know my soul Come to Normandy Where the sky runs into stone Where the tide rewrites the sea But if you want to see me whole Come to Normandy

Verse 2

Seeing Mont Saint Michel at twilight Rising where the shoreline parts Like a prayer made out of granite Pulling something from your heart And when the bells rang through the harbor I swear time stood still for me Like every road I'd ever taken Had been leading there quietly

Bridge

Maybe love is not just going Maybe love is letting see All the sacred little places That have made the shape of me

Chorus

I could take you anywhere Paris lights or southern seas If you want to know my soul Come to Normandy Where the sky runs into stone Where the tide rewrites the sea But if you want to see me whole Come to Normandy