[Intro — acoustic guitar, gentle, intimate] [Verse 1 male voice] I used to pray when the room went quiet I used to kneel on the cold hard floor I said — if you're there Give me something A word, a sign Anything at all I watched the ceiling I watched the candle I watched the window For something more The silence answered The silence always Answered back The way silence does [Pre-Chorus male voice] I waited years I counted mornings I kept the faith Until I couldn't keep it anymore [Chorus male voice] I asked you for a sign And you said nothing I looked for you in the dark And found the dark alone I asked you for a sign And heard only silence So I packed up all my prayers And I came home [Verse 2 male voice] I stopped expecting I stopped the kneeling I made my peace With the empty sky I told myself That some questions Don't get answered And that's alright [Chorus male voice] I asked you for a sign And you said nothing I looked for you in the dark And found the dark alone I asked you for a sign And heard only silence So I packed up all my prayers And I came home [Instrumental bridge — mood shifts, warmer, strings enter] [Verse 3 female voice] I sent you mornings You called them Monday I wrote your name In the frost on glass I put the sparrow Outside your window You said the weather Was getting cold at last I bent the light Through October raindrops You took a photo And drove away I salted every road You walked on safely You said the winter Came late this year today [Pre-Chorus female voice] I filled your coffee With something warmer I kept the lamp on In the hall at night I gave you hunger So you'd find the table I gave you darkness So you'd know the light [Chorus female voice] You asked me for a sign I sent you thousands You looked for me in the dark I was the dark made warm You asked me for a sign I wrote it in the ordinary In every unremarkable Beautiful Ordinary morning [Final Verse male voice] And now I'm standing In an ordinary kitchen With ordinary light Across the floor And something shifts Behind my chest like weather And I think Maybe I've been here before Maybe the silence Was never empty Maybe the signs Were never grand Maybe God Writes in the language Of the everyday And I just Didn't understand [Final Chorus choir] I asked you for a sign You sent me mornings I looked for you in the dark You were the candle flame I asked you for a sign You wrote it in the ordinary In every cup of tea In every drop of rain In every unremarkable Beautiful Ordinary Day [Outro male voice— guitar alone, single notes, long spaces between] I think I see it now I think I see it now
