[Verse 1]
He carried the weight of a country he served with pride,
Boots on the ground, something burning deep inside,
The kind of man who'd give before he'd ever ask,
Who wore his strength like armor, never showed the cracks,
But underneath that fire, there's an ocean running still,
A tide that feels everything, always always will

[PreChorus]
The uniform comes off, but the mission stays behind,
It takes a different courage just to quiet your own mind

[Chorus]
Come home now, Mitchell, lay your battle down,
You've earned the right to rest on solid ground,
Come home now, Mitchell, let the healing start,
You fought for everyone — now fight for your own heart

[Verse 2]
He loves like something ancient, steady, deep, and wide,
The kind that builds a shelter just to pull his people inside,
Doesn't say it easy, but you feel it in the room,
Like sunlight through the window on a late August afternoon,
He'll carry every burden, he'll be the last to break,
But even rivers need the rain they're always giving away

[PreChorus]
The years have taught him patience, the hard way, like they do,
But everything he's weathered was just shaping something true

[Chorus]
Come home now, Mitchell, lay your battle down,
You've earned the right to rest on solid ground,
Come home now, Mitchell, let the healing start,
You fought for everyone — now fight for your own heart

[Verse 3]
There's a chapter he's been holding with both hands for too long,
Pages worn from rereading every place he thinks he went wrong,
But the sacrifice he gave wasn't wasted, wasn't lost,
It became the bedrock, worth every single cost,
Now the door is swinging open and the light is coming through,
And the family waiting on the porch — they've always needed you

[PreChorus]
Let the small things be enough tonight, the table and the grace,
There's more holiness in a quiet life than he's been trained to face

[Chorus]
Come home now, Mitchell, lay your battle down,
You've earned the right to rest on solid ground,
Come home now, Mitchell, let the healing start,
You fought for everyone — now fight for your own heart

[Verse 4]
The stars were written careful when they wrote a soul like his,
A lion with a dreamer's heart — that's exactly what he is,
Built for something greater, still becoming what he'll be,
The past don't hold the future, it just sets a good man free,
So let the fields go quiet, let the Georgia evening fall,
There's a new beginning rising — and he's already worth it all

[PreChorus]
The best of him ain't what he did out there in uniform and dust,
It's who he is right now — and that's more than enough

[Chorus]
Come home now, Mitchell, lay your battle down,
You've earned the right to rest on solid ground,
Come home now, Mitchell, let the healing start,
You fought for everyone — now fight for your own heart

[Bridge]
The ones who loved him through it see what he can't yet see,
That healing ain't a weakness — it's the bravest form of free,
The cosmos wrote him carefully with ink that never fades,
A man like him was always meant for more than braver days

[Outro]
So rest now, let the night hold what the daylight couldn't keep,
The best is still ahead of you — and it starts with letting go and breathing deep