[Verse 1] We called the thunder weather So we wouldn't be afraid Drew lines around the ocean Put the hours in their place We named the streets, the seasons Every color, every wound As if a word could hold a thing And keep it in the room [Pre-Chorus] But there are words I keep behind my teeth There are doors that don't need keys [Chorus] If I name it, it can find me If I name it, it gets in Every heaven needs a doorway Every monster needs a skin So I keep you like a secret Where no language can lay claim Some things die when they're forgotten Some things wake when they are named [Verse 2] I've watched a rumor turn to truth Just passing mouth to mouth Watched a shadow learn its shape The moment it was pointed out I've seen a promise become a chain A prayer become a throne Funny how a little sound Can make a thing its own [Pre-Chorus] So there's one word I won't let cross my lips I know the power that it gives [Chorus] If I name it, it can find me If I name it, it gets in Every heaven needs a doorway Every monster needs a skin So I keep you like a secret Where no language can lay claim Some things die when they're forgotten Some things wake when they are named [Bridge] Last night I almost said it Just to hear how it would sound The room went still around me Like the walls were listening now You were sleeping next to me I could feel it taking shape Four small letters in the darkness And I swallowed them away [Final Chorus] If I name it, you can leave me If I name it, you are real You can bruise, and you can break me You can become something I feel Still I turn to you at midnight With that word inside my veins Some things die when they're forgotten But I don't want you that way [Outro] So when you ask me what this is I look away There are things we lose by silence There are things we lose by name
