Someone Says Your Name

from The Longest Day of the Year by The Dustbowl Daddies

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lyrics

I hear the whistle blowing
every time someone says your name.
I hear that train.
When I hear the owl calling,
it’s in your voice that I hear its name,
and the world begins.
When the morning crows are calling,
it’s with you that the light remains
as they rise again.
When the holy word is broken,
and the world lies open without its name,
I see your pain.

As the green returns to the tree we planted for you,
every year its shape will change, and change is true.
But on your sweater I never returned there is no perfume.
Being here without you feels like killing time.
I hear your voice in words for things now undefined.
Soon everything I would have wanted you to see
won’t even appear to me.

When I heard the whistle blowing
I didn’t know who’d be on that train.
You can’t see the names.
When the winter trail had melted,
washed away in spring by the force of rain,
your path had changed.
Now I see the sun fall empty
on your face still shining in its frame
through the darkness gained.
All the words we left unspoken
sing in voiceless silence what remains,
when I hear your name.

As the green returns to the tree we planted for you,
every year its shape will change, and change is true.
But on your sweater I never returned there is no perfume.
Being here without you feels like killing time.
I hear your voice in words for things now undefined.
Soon everything I would have wanted you to see
won’t even appear to me.

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from The Longest Day of the Year, released June 6, 2015
Lyrics and Music, Paul Tyler

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The Dustbowl Daddies Ottawa, Ontario

For The Dustbowl Daddies, music is about bringing people together. Combining four-voice harmony with an acoustic/electric folk feel, backed up with old-time banjo, mandolin, Telecaster twang and swinging trumpet, we write high energy, upbeat tunes that get people moving. ... more

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