BEFORE OUR NAMES - KASPYO

[Verse 1] When the grass grows high And the road turns pale There are marks asleep Under root and shale No one wrote them down No one called them art Still the ancient lec’h Knows the shape of the heart [Pre-Chorus] Trace after trace The old hands appear A spiral for hunger A cross against fear The shape keeps a promise The cut keeps a glow The child at the center Still knows where to go [Male, soft lower response] I hear it still Under the stone [Chorus] Before our names Before our names They were not alone They had worlds of their own [Male, low harmony] They had worlds of their own Before our names Before our names The earth and sky Still move in our eyes [Verse 2] They said, face the dawn Not erase the night Not mistake the new For the only light You looked past the stones Thought their silence small But the oldest hands Had carved what we are [Pre-Chorus] A mother, a hunter A ruler, a flame A mouth made for warning A face without name The mark keeps returning Wherever we go The child at the center Still guards what we know [Chorus] Before our names Before our names They were not alone They had worlds of their own [Male, low harmony] They had worlds of their own Before our names Before our names The earth and sky Still move in our eyes [Bridge] If the words are gone [Male, distant response] I still hear them The design remains [Male, soft response] I still see If the voice is lost [Male, low harmony] I stay near The hand still explains [Male, soft response] It leads me home They gave you the dawn You mistook it for birth You called yourselves first On an already old Earth [Final Chorus] Before our names Before our names They were not alone They had worlds of their own [Male, low harmony] They had worlds of their own Before our names Before our names The earth and sky Still move in our eyes [Male, gentle rising harmony] Still in our eyes Before our names Before our names Every future we know Was asleep in the stone Before our names Before our names The stone never changed We forgot how it spoke