[Verse 1] (tone: angry sarcasm) It must be nice to do what you do Turn a ghost into a family taboo Christmas dinner, plates and wine Everybody laughing like everything’s fine Politics, babies, jobs, and weather Y’all can talk for hours together Funny how the room gets quiet fast Every time it wanders near the past ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] (tone: building) No one started a fight No one made a scene You just erased a woman Like she’d never been ⸻ [Chorus] (tone: furious) Say her name God forbid Let’s all act like she never lived Let’s pass the food Let’s pour the drinks Let’s avoid every uncomfortable thing Say her name Or tell the truth That silence is easier for you Because my mother died And here’s the shame She died again When you stopped saying her name ⸻ [Verse 2] (tone: bitter) My dad sat staring at his phone Fire alerts lighting up his home Emergencies somewhere down the road Always louder than the pain I hold I asked about my brother twice Had to poke his leg to get advice Funny how disaster gets attention fast Unless the disaster happened in your past ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] (tone: sharper) I wasn’t asking for a miracle I was asking to exist ⸻ [Chorus] (tone: bigger) Say her name Just once would do But apparently that’s too much for you Let’s talk babies Let’s talk plans Let’s pretend nobody understands Say her name Or stop pretending That silence is somehow healing Because grief doesn’t disappear Just because everybody quits speaking ⸻ [Bridge] (tone: brutal honesty) And here’s the part that cuts the deepest You all knew her Every single one You watched her fall apart You watched me survive it And somehow I became The only witness left ⸻ [Breakdown] (tone: devastating) My mother died That’s tragedy My mother died And nobody mentioned her That’s something else entirely ⸻ [Final Chorus] (tone: explosive) Say her name I’m done being polite Done carrying this grief by myself every night Say her name Because I still do When nobody else in the room wants to She was complicated She was flawed She was sick She was still my mom And if that makes the room uncomfortable Good I’ve been uncomfortable for years ⸻ [Outro] (tone: quiet rage) The gifts stayed in the trunk The food got cold The conversation moved on Like it always does But I’ll remember what happened Because I was there When my mother died twice Once in her body And once in their mouths
