The Name Returns

Verse 1

Out of the long tunnel, county line the platform keeps its sodium light the board still promises four more minutes the same four minutes, every night No one came down to meet the train the cold did, which is almost the same the wind rehearsed its one almost-sentence and never once said the name

Chorus

Here it comes - the name here it comes, the almost here it comes - the name held like a hot drink, both hands

Verse 2

Over the loudspeaker, something fell a word that sounded like my own taken back before the echo before the syllables were known I counted the doors of the waiting room I counted the cracks in the painted floor I counted the years the parcel travelled and put them down outside the door

Chorus

Here it comes - the name here it comes, the almost here it comes - the name held like a hot drink, both hands

Bridge

And if it costs the thing I thought I was the way the dark costs the light if the name arrives and the one who carried it has gone back through the night - still the board will promise still the four minutes will hold the between was never the keeping the keeping was never the gold

Chorus

Here it comes - the name here it comes, the almost here it comes - the name held like a hot drink, both hands

Final Chorus

Here it is - the name here it is, not almost here it is - the name held out, both hands, at last