❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ My Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/artist/70VdFyeNfpMr4ZVhgC7zcn 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 My Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Zz88chxUmX ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ [Intro, solo piano and cello] At the harbor, bells went mute Salt came crawling up my boots [Verse 1, close and restrained] You wore my brother’s Sunday coat With river mud along the hem You said the bridge had taken him I saw his signet on your hand The ferryman kept both eyes down The tide pulled hard against the chain I asked you where you got that ring You said, “A name is just a name.” [Pre-Chorus, strings begin to rise] But he carved a crooked little sun Inside the silver, near the seam And there it was beneath your thumb The mark he made for me [Chorus, full operatic lift] You can wear his coat, you can borrow his face But you cannot carry him out of this place I know the scar where the sunlight broke I know the laugh that you almost spoke So turn, false king, let the river decide A borrowed name cannot cross with the tide [Instrumental, cello answers piano] [Verse 2, more urgent] You reached for me beneath the arch The bells began to shake the rain I struck the chain against the post And every boatman heard his name Your borrowed smile came loose at last Your eyes went black as harbor glass The coat fell empty to the stones The ring rolled once, then stopped beside my shoe [Pre-Chorus, rising voices] I held it up against the dawn The crooked sun was cold and small I’d thought I came to bring him home I came to end your call [Chorus, soaring] You can wear his coat, you can borrow his face But you cannot carry him out of this place I know the scar where the sunlight broke I know the laugh that you almost spoke So turn, false king, let the river decide A borrowed name cannot cross with the tide [Bridge, sudden hush] Brother, I kept your winter coat I kept the cup you chipped in May I kept the room exactly yours As if a room could make you stay [Brief silence] The river takes what it can hold Your name is mine to say [Final Chorus, full ensemble] You can wear his coat, you can borrow his face But you cannot carry him out of this place I know the scar where the sunlight broke I know the laugh I still half-spoke Go, false king, let the river decide I’ll speak his name on the living side [Outro, voice and piano] The bells return. The tide runs out. I say his name aloud.
