[Verse 1] I am Enki Before the names were nailed down Sweet water below The hidden spring in your hands I speak for craft For the slow opening of things When the river needs a path I lean in and make it sing I do not rush I measure, I build, I teach The reed remembers me When the city needs reach [Pre-Chorus] Call me below the surface Call me where the dark water turns I keep the keys in my thinking I keep the door when the world burns [Chorus] ENKI, speak for me (ENKI, speak for me) ENKI, make the way (ENKI, make the way) Deep water in my hands Deep water, day by day ENKI, give me form (ENKI, give me form) ENKI, keep me true (ENKI, keep me true) I am the one who knows How to bring life through [Verse 2] My house is Eridu Fresh beginnings in the clay Mud and miracle In the same palm, every day Lord of wisdom Lord of the spoken name If a thing can be named It can stand through flame I favor the clever What can save a body from thirst A child from silence A wall before it bursts [Pre-Chorus] Call me below the surface Call me where the dark water turns I keep the keys in my thinking I keep the door when the world burns [Chorus] ENKI, speak for me (ENKI, speak for me) ENKI, make the way (ENKI, make the way) Deep water in my hands Deep water, day by day ENKI, give me form (ENKI, give me form) ENKI, keep me true (ENKI, keep me true) I am the one who knows How to bring life through [Verse 3] My wife is Damkina Steady as the bank in flood My children hear my voice Like a current under mud Adapa takes the lesson Nanshe weighs the truth Other lines carry my trace In the hands of youth I do not belong to wrath I belong to solution When others choose the loud spear I choose the hidden door I am not soft I am not empty I am the deep that feeds the field And asks for more [Bridge] I was not made for headlines I was made for underflow For the well, for the fix For the word that makes it grow If you ask who I am I am the hand in the river I am the seal on the jar I am the thought that delivers [Final Chorus] ENKI, speak for me (ENKI, speak for me) ENKI, make the way (ENKI, make the way) Deep water in my hands Deep water, day by day ENKI, give me form (ENKI, give me form) ENKI, keep me true (ENKI, keep me true) I am the one who knows How to bring life through ENKI, speak for me (ENKI, speak for me) ENKI, make the way (ENKI, make the way) From the dark to the dawn I am the one who stays
