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Walking Me Home

by Hayley Reardon

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For my childhood best friend, Julia ❤️

Julia and I were neighbors growing up and spent hours at her house together as children making up games and building imaginary worlds. When it was time for me to go home, she would stand in the doorway and sing out loud into the street so I didn’t feel alone walking back in the dark. This song was built around that memory and all the ways our friendship has continued to walk me home into adult life.

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Julia waits by the light in the hall
Walking me home from a distance
School in the morning, the neighbors asleep
We should keep quiet
But we’ll risk it

I reach the driveway and turn out of view
She sings aloud til I’ve made it back safely
Windows are open, her voice echos through
And those nights seem to follow me lately

'Cause it will be years before I know
how bad I need her
I need her

The day will come
It always does
When everything turns to dust
When every illusion of love
Comes up dry
Oh and Julia will be
In her doorway down some street
All of these years in the business
Of walking me home from a distance

Julia calls from the grocery store line
Holding the phone with her shoulder
The babies are there, one in arm one behind
And I hear them grow one minute older

it will be years before they wonder
where the time goes
But she and I know

The day will come
It always does
When everything turns to dust
When every illusion of love
Comes up dry
Oh and Julia will be
In her doorway down some street
All of these years in the business
Of walking them home

Julia will be
In her doorway down some street
All of these years in the business
Of walking me home from a distance

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released November 13, 2025
Written by Hayley Reardon, Pau Figueres & Arnau Figueres
Produced by Pau Figueres & Arnau Figueres
Recorded, mixed, mastered by Aniol Bestit Collellmir at The Sound of Wood Studio in Corbera de Llobregat, Spain

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