Verse 1

They brought your name home in a folded flag

A careful voice, a practiced pause

They said the road had taken you

And closed the book before I could

I keep your coat beside the door

The sleeve still turned the way you wore

They call it hope; I call it knowing

Somewhere, your heart is still beating

Pre-Chorus

And you have waited all these years

With patient hands and open eyes

But when I reach for something certain

You turn away and leave me wondering why

Chorus

I’m not free just because they say

Your name belongs to yesterday