When You Call My Name

If all my lovers sing the big words

And all my brothers keep them small

Then I'll get lost in the difference

Between their whisper and the echo of their call

So I am headed for the ocean

To let the sea smoke guide me in

I'd give up my belongings and questions

They only ever taught me, to begin

So I will not turn around

As I step up to the train

But I'll hear it when you call my name

And I will not be the sound

Of your roof under the rain

But I'll hear it when you call my name

So I am takin' off my wristwatch

To let the time move how I please

To let my day be guided by the sunlight

Through morning's mill and twilight's soft release

So if you wanna get to know me

Follow my smile down into its curves

All these lines are born in sorrows and pleasures

And every man ends up with the face that he deserves

So I will not give you bread

As you reach out from your cage

But I'll hear it when you call my name

And I will not give applause

As you step off of the stage

But I'll hear it when you call my name

There's a river running through the city

Gently reminding me what's what

Of course you are invited to come with me

But I don't think that's really what you want

I think you want a world that will hold you

Through security and gravity and love

And I can't think of anyone who'd blame you

And I can't think of how that'd be enough

So I won't come back around

When you curse the ground you've tamed

But I'll hear it when you call my name

And when you realize, once I'm gone

That I never really came

Oh I'll hear it when you call my name

And when the burden of the sun

Reveals to you its pain

Oh I'll hear it when you call my name

And when you realize that you're wrong

But you still give me all the blame

I'll hear it when you call my name