[Verse 1] I am Enki. I was there before the names were nailed down. I know the sweet water under the ground, the hidden spring, the clay in your hands. I speak for craft. I speak for the slow opening of things. When the river needs a path, when the fish need a way, when the city needs a mind, I am the one who leans in. I do not rush. I make. I measure. I teach the reed to remember. [Pre-Chorus] Call me below the surface, call me where the dark water turns. I keep the keys in my thinking, I keep the door when the world burns. [Chorus] ENKI, speak for me (ENKI, speak for me) ENKI, make the way (ENKI, make the way) Deep water in my hands Deep water, day by day ENKI, give me form (ENKI, give me form) ENKI, keep me true (ENKI, keep me true) I am the one who knows How to bring life through [Verse 2] My house is Eridu. My place is the place of fresh beginnings. I sit with mud and miracle, with rules and mercy in the same palm. I am lord of wisdom. I am lord of incantation. If a thing can be named, it can be handled. If a thing can be built, it can stand. I favor what is clever, what is useful, what can save a body from thirst, a child from silence, a wall from falling. I stand with people. I stand with the ones who work with their hands. I keep an ear to their prayers and a sharper ear to their needs. [Pre-Chorus] Call me below the surface, call me where the dark water turns. I keep the keys in my thinking, I keep the door when the world burns. [Chorus] ENKI, speak for me (ENKI, speak for me) ENKI, make the way (ENKI, make the way) Deep water in my hands Deep water, day by day ENKI, give me form (ENKI, give me form) ENKI, keep me true (ENKI, keep me true) I am the one who knows How to bring life through [Verse 3] My wife is Damkina. She stands beside my knowing, steady as the bank when the flood comes in. With her, the house is held together. With her, the house has roots. My children know my voice. Adapa listens for the lesson. Nanshe knows the weight of judgment. Other lines carry my trace, my patient blood, my reaching mind, my love of what survives. I do not belong to wrath. I belong to solution. When others choose the loud spear, I choose the hidden gate. When others choose the boast, I choose the answer. I am not soft. I am not empty. I am the deep that feeds the field. [Bridge] I was not made for headlines. I was made for the underflow, for the well, for the fix, for the word that turns fear into order. If you ask who I am, I am the hand in the river. I am the seal on the jar. I am the thought that keeps the house from sinking. [Final Chorus] ENKI, speak for me (ENKI, speak for me) ENKI, make the way (ENKI, make the way) Deep water in my hands Deep water, day by day ENKI, give me form (ENKI, give me form) ENKI, keep me true (ENKI, keep me true) I am the one who knows How to bring life through ENKI, speak for me (ENKI, speak for me) ENKI, make the way (ENKI, make the way) From the dark to the dawn I am the one who stays
