[Intro]
If you find my name where the tall grass bends
Tell the wind I was more than the way it ends
[Verse 1]
I left my coat by the cedar gate
Dust on the letters I was scared to say
Mama kept a picture beside the sink
I kept one promise longer than I could think
Out past the ridge where the cold drums roll
I learned every mile has a price on the soul
No crown in the dirt, no medal to hold
Just a handful of stories I refused to let go
[Pre-Chorus]
When the last light falls on the broken ground
Will the life I carried still make a sound?
[Chorus]
I’ll be more than a name on a stone
More than the road that I walked alone
If my voice fades out where the tall grass sways
Let the ones I loved be the mark I made
I’m not gone, I’m the breath in the brave
The open door and the debts we forgave
When the morning comes and the smoke clears thin
Tell them I left a light they can carry in
[Verse 2]
My brother still laughs with his hands in his coat
My sister writes songs on the back of a note
I can see them now through the winter rain
Every small act of love outlives the pain
I was never clean, I was never sure
But I gave what I had when the hour got poor
If the ground takes my bones, let the roots run deep
Let the promises bloom where the fallen sleep
[Bridge]
No trumpet, no farewell, no final parade
Just the names of the living and the choices they made
If you hear me tonight, don’t kneel in the dust
Build something gentle from the pieces of us
[Breakdown]
Cut the lights
Hold the breath
Count the names
Not the death
One last step
One last spark
Carry me
Through the dark
[Final Chorus]
I’ll be more than a name on a stone
More than the road that I walked alone
If my voice fades out where the tall grass sways
Let the ones I loved be the mark I made
I’m not gone, I’m the breath in the brave
The open door and the debts we forgave
When the morning comes and the smoke clears thin
Tell them I left a light they can carry in
[Final Chorus - Bigger]
I’ll be more than a name on a stone
Hear me rise in the hearts I have known
Through the fields, through the years, through the rain
Love remembers what the war couldn’t claim
I’m not gone, I’m the breath in the brave
Every life is a chance to be saved
When the morning comes and the smoke clears thin
Tell them I left a light they can carry in
[Outro]
If you find my name where the tall grass bends
Tell the wind I was more than the way it ends