Let Me Out

If My Violin Had Words - Songs from the melodies I never sang If My Violin Had Words is a collection of songs born from violin melodies that once existed without lyrics. These were pieces I played knowing exactly what they meant to me, but often harder to interpret as instrumental pieces, so these new song combine sampled fragments with lyrics close to my heart — fragments of memory, longing, survival, love, escape, and home. This project imagines what those melodies would become if they finally had a voice. Each track turns a sample from my violin tunes into a song: sometimes cinematic, sometimes intimate, sometimes painful, sometimes hopeful. Together, they move through old streets, locked rooms, seaside sunsets, Duino memories, beautiful disguises, and nights I almost didn’t make it through. At its heart, this album is about giving words to feelings that lived first in sound. Lyrics: [Intro] Let me out, let me out I wanna come home [Verse 1] My friends keep calling on a Friday night Saying there’s music and neon lights I say I’m coming, I swear I’ll try Then I’m dressed on the floor with a storm in my mind There’s a boy with a smile I’ve been meaning to see But the mirror starts talking like it knows better than me My heart says go, my hands say stay So I watch the whole world from a window frame [Pre-Chorus] And I hate that I hide When I wanna be found I built myself a kingdom But I can’t get out [Chorus] I’m locked inside my castle But I don’t wanna be I keep saying I’m okay When I’m losing pieces of me There’s a bottle in the water There are ghosts out in the hall I built these walls to save me Now I can’t feel love at all [Post-Chorus] Let me out, let me out I’m tired of being alone Let me out, let me out I wanna come home [Verse 2] I know every crack in the ceiling now Every old excuse, every way to back out My body keeps fighting like it’s not on my side Turns a simple hello into a mountain to climb And the bottle keeps singing from the kitchen sink Saying one more night and you won’t have to think But I know that song, I know that road It only leads deeper where the cold winds blow [Pre-Chorus] And I hate that I run When I wanna be held I made myself a heaven That turned into a cell [Chorus] I’m locked inside my castle But I don’t wanna be I keep saying I’m okay When I’m losing pieces of me There’s a bottle in the water There are ghosts out in the hall I built these walls to save me Now I can’t feel love at all [Post-Chorus] Let me out, let me out I’m tired of being alone Let me out, let me out I wanna come home [Bridge] Maybe I don’t need a crown Maybe I don’t need these gates Maybe I can call my friends Even if my voice still shakes Maybe I can love a boy Without running from the light Maybe I can lose the war And still make it through the night So I’ll take one stone Then another one down I don’t need this castle I don’t need this crown [Final Chorus] I’m locked inside my castle But I don’t wanna be I keep saying I’m okay When I’m losing pieces of me There’s a bottle in the water There are ghosts out in the hall I built these walls to save me But I still believe in love [Final Post-Chorus] Let me out, let me out I’m tired of being alone Let me out, let me out I wanna come home Let me out, let me out I’m finding my way through the stone Let me out, let me out I wanna come home [Outro] I wanna come home I wanna come home Let me out Let me out