[Verse 1] You cross the avenue where rain edits the signs Blue on your cheek from a billboard’s borrowed eyes Your coat holds the warmth of a room you left behind While every window offers you a cleaner kind of life [Pre-Chorus] I know the sound your footsteps make Before the cameras learn your name [Chorus] Keep one hand on the door Keep one thought that is yours When the towers call you home Let them call into the cold You are more than what they keep More than copies, more than screens If the whole wide city knows your face I will know you by your name [Verse 2] Above the traffic, your tall blue outline climbs A second self stitched through the cables and the sky You watch the sleeping blocks replay their borrowed smiles But somewhere in your chest, a stubborn pulse survives [Pre-Chorus] No bright machine can hold the ache Of all the lives you chose to make [Chorus] Keep one hand on the door Keep one thought that is yours When the towers call you home Let them call into the cold You are more than what they keep More than copies, more than screens If the whole wide city knows your face I will know you by your name [Bridge] Come down from the signal Come back through the rain There’s a chipped blue cup waiting And your place hasn’t changed [Final Chorus] Keep one hand on the door Keep one thought that is yours When the towers call you home Let them call into the cold You are more than what they keep More than copies, more than screens Let the whole wide city lose your face I will know you by your name [Outro] Your place hasn’t changed I will know you by your name
