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‘Lost Home’ is a song I wrote for my parents, who left Iran after the 1979 Revolution. It’s about the legacy, memories, and pieces of home we carry with us when we start over. While it comes from my Iranian heritage, it’s for anyone who has had to leave the home they once knew and build a new life, holding both what’s lost and what endures.

Featuring:
Vincenzo De La Rosa on keys
Mica Erin and Caitlin Smith on Violin
Kaitlin Wolfberg on Viola
Ryan Phipps on Cello

Lyrics:

Staring at your pictures it takes me to deserts a world away
Left it all behind but your heart still remembers your younger days

You showed me the streets where you’d dance you were free
With the wind in your hair
Satin skirt you would wear

You had to watch as your country went back a thousand years
And your childhood disappeared

You ran with no plans
And only the clothes on your back
So I will
Promise to listen
Your stories, your wisdom
Won’t die

Two lives one century
All you have left are your memories
I’ll carry all your dreams
Your lost home will live on in me
Me

I still see the palace with rose colored glasses you used to know
Mirrored walls they would glitter with hope not long ago
Now all you see when you turn on tv is a man with a turban telling girls what to be
Thought we were past this the massacred masses
just wanting to be free

Tell me
How did this happen
From progress to violence and grief
I can’t change the past but I
Promise to listen
Your stories, your wisdom
Won’t die

Two lives one century
All you have left are your memories
I’ll carry all your dreams
Your lost home will live on in me
Me