I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself
if I could just come in I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.
When Snow sees Emma's nursery it brings back memories and makes her think about what if Emma had grown up with her and Charming. She felt like a different person being at the castle. She felt how she felt the day Emma was born and they had to send Emma through the wardrobe alone.
Snow imagines what it would have been like to raise Emma. She imagines Emma's first steps, her first words, her first ball, her first crush. Snow imagines teaching her daughter to ride a horse, teaching Emma archery and Charming teaching Emma to sword fight.
Mama cut out pictures of houses for years.
From 'Better Homes and Garden' magazines.
Plans were drawn, concrete poured,
and nail by nail and board by board
Daddy gave life to mama's dream.
Emma imagines herself growing up in the castle with her parents. She imagines her daddy building a guest house onto the castle that is exactly what her mama asked for and how her mama dreamed it would look. Emma imagines learning to ride a horse, and her mama teaching her archery. She imagines her daddy teaching her how to sword fight.
I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself.
If I could just come in I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.
Emma thought that if she could see where her parents where planning on raising her and seeing for herself how much they wanted her that some of the brokenness inside of her from her time in the foster system might start healing. Since she didn't grow up as a princess and it all still felt like a fairytale, she still felt that brokenness inside.
You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can.
I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.
Being back in the Enchanted Forest and seeing the castle, Snow realized that she had lost a part of who she was. She had forgotten a little bit of what she was like in the Enchanted Forest.
I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself.
If I could walk around I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.