We Don’t Know Us cover art by Jason Elijah

Come Back

from We Don’t Know Us

A voice calls across distance—not just to a person, but to something that once felt close, almost inseparable. There’s memory here, and a quiet confusion about how something so real could drift so far away. It doesn’t demand an answer. It just keeps calling.

Lyrics

why don't you come back? why don't you ever come around you know sometimes we'd like to see you why don't you ever come around and hang out awhile I thought we were really good friends remember last time we all got together remember last time I saw your face I remember last time I went out into the sky I remember last time you taught me you taught me to fly you taught me to fly taught me to fly oh, and I did oh, and we did oh, yeah so tell me now why you're not coming around tell me now why you're not hanging around where are you, honey? hanging around come back, honey hanging around come back, honey come back, darling

There’s a strange kind of absence this song circles—one that isn’t clean or final. It lingers. It leaves traces. It remembers what it used to feel like when connection was effortless, when presence didn’t have to be asked for.

But something has shifted. No explanation is given, or maybe none can be trusted. The voice keeps returning to memory—you taught me to fly—as if trying to prove that what was once shared was real. Not imagined. Not a mistake.

And still, no answer comes. Just the echo of the call. Not angry. Not even fully broken. Just… reaching. As if somewhere beneath everything that’s been lost, there’s still a belief—quiet, almost hidden—that something might return.