[Verse 1] You left your coat on the chair by the door Dust on the sleeves, one button undone A brass key rests in the saucer downstairs The old house keeps count of the years you outrun [Pre-Chorus] Then from the hill, through the cold morning air A clear call reaches the rooms where you hide No hand can answer the question for you No locked drawer can keep it inside [Chorus] Rise from the names that they gave you Rise from the bargains you made The past is a room, not a sentence Step through the door in the day When the long-held breath is released When the buried truth gets its say Rise, let the reckoning find you Rise, and be changed by the day [Verse 2] Your sister’s blue cup is chipped at the rim A schoolyard promise still caught in your throat You can’t make the years turn backward again But you can decide what you carry afloat [Pre-Chorus] The call doesn’t soften the weight of the road It tells you the road can still bend You gather the pieces you thought were the whole And choose what you’ll mend, what you’ll end [Chorus] Rise from the names that they gave you Rise from the bargains you made The past is a room, not a sentence Step through the door in the day When the long-held breath is released When the buried truth gets its say Rise, let the reckoning find you Rise, and be changed by the day [Instrumental Solo: expressive blues guitar and organ] [Bridge] Not innocence, not a clean slate Just both feet planted at last A face in the glass you can meet A future that isn’t your past [Final Chorus] Rise from the names that they gave you Rise from the bargains you made The past is a room, not a sentence Step through the door in the day When the long-held breath is released When the buried truth gets its say Rise, let the reckoning find you Rise, and be changed by the day [Outro] The cup on the sill catches morning The key turns once in the door You take one step into the open You are not who you were before
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