Small Pieces, Wide World

[Verse 1]
I left a thread in Manila rain
A coin in a cab in Madrid
A promise folded in Lisbon blue
A name I forgot but the feeling stayed hid

I gave you the part that knew how to wait
You took the part that could forgive
Now every border has one of my hands
And none of them tell me where to live

[Pre-Chorus]
I keep a room inside my ribs
With doors that never close
Every goodbye takes one more brick
From the place I used to know

[Chorus]
I gave my heart in little pieces
To strangers I still call my own
A piece in the heat, a piece in the harbor
A piece underneath someone else’s home
I gave my heart in little pieces
Now it will never beat in one place again
But I’m not broken, I’m spread out
I’m more than the person I was back then

[Verse 2]
There’s a blue scarf under Tokyo seats
A photograph near the Nile
A joke in a kitchen in Valparaíso
That still makes a stranger smile

I learned that love is a postal code
A borrowed coat, a midnight train
You don’t return with the same two hands
When they’ve carried somebody else’s pain

[Pre-Chorus]
I keep a map inside my chest
The roads are worn and bright
Every place I couldn’t stay
Still taught me how to write

[Chorus]
I gave my heart in little pieces
To strangers I still call my own
A piece in the heat, a piece in the harbor
A piece underneath someone else’s home
I gave my heart in little pieces
Now it will never beat in one place again
But I’m not broken, I’m spread out
I’m more than the person I was back then

[Bridge]
If you find me in the voice of a friend
Or the way a child says my name
Don’t send me back, don’t gather the fragments
They grew into something I couldn’t have made

I used to beg for a single center
One safe address, one locked door
Now I carry a thousand small endings
And I don’t need to be whole anymore

[Final Chorus]
I gave my heart in little pieces
To strangers I still call my own
A piece in the heat, a piece in the harbor
A piece underneath someone else’s home
I gave my heart in little pieces
It will never beat in one place again
I’m not missing, I’m spread out
Everywhere I loved is where I begin

[Outro]
Small pieces, wide world
Still mine, still moving
Small pieces, wide world
I’m not lost—I’m becoming