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