a name is the breath that keeps you here (sing them home) I found the supper going cold a knife left standing in the wood the door swung wide and would not hold and no one there to say a word There's a well where the road gives out a wooden horse gone face-down drowned the birds went still, the air pulled thin there's something feeding underground So I knelt at the stone gave the well my breath gave your mother's name away and I named myself for death Sing them home (sing them home) give them back what the quiet stole I sang them home (sing them home) every name except my own One by one the doorways filled the dog, the child, the woman's shawl I spoke a dead man's name out loud and watched him rise and heard him call Sing them home (sing them home) give them back what the quiet stole I sang them home (sing them home) every name except my own There's a third name, the true one, kept so deep I never heard it said I sang it down into the well and left it with the silent dead Sing them home (sing them home) they've got their names, they're whole but who is left beside the stone to sing me... (sing them home) they call the names the dark left behind a name, a name - and none of them mine (sing them home)
