[Intro]
Stone remembers
Skin forgets
Blood runs forward
Stone holds debt

[Verse 1]
At the bottom of the hidden passage
I found no monster, found no gate
Only a chamber warm with silence
And names arranged in rings of slate

Thousands carved in narrow circles
Not as kings and not as slaves
Women, children, fishers, singers
Those who walked below the waves

[Pre-Chorus]
I laid my hand
Where no hand lay
And every name
Began to say

[Chorus]
The stone remembers
Every breath they gave below
The stone remembers
Every footstep through the snow
Not for glory, not for thunder
Not for songs that men would know
The stone remembers
What the living let go

[Verse 2]
I heard a girl who fed the ravens
So her brother would not starve
I heard a man who broke his oar-blade
Just to make one final mark

I heard the elder with the antlers
I heard her voice like winter grain
She said the seal is not a prison
It is mercy wearing pain

[Pre-Chorus]
Not all truth
Must rise to light
Some things are held
To keep life bright

[Chorus]
The stone remembers
Every breath they gave below
The stone remembers
Every footstep through the snow
Not for glory, not for thunder
Not for songs that men would know
The stone remembers
What the living let go

[Instrumental Break]
Haa
Names in stone
Haa
Not alone

[Bridge]
Then the chamber showed my village
Not destroyed, not crowned, not saved
Only waking into morning
Smoke from every roof-beam raised

If I turned away from hunger
If I held the final name
They would never know my footsteps
But they would warm their hands by flame

[Build-up]
So I carved my name beside them
Small and crooked, hard to see
And the stone took one low breath in
As if it had been waiting for me

[Final Chorus]
The stone remembers
Every breath they gave below
The stone remembers
Every footstep through the snow
Not for glory, not for thunder
Not for songs that men would know
The stone remembers
What the living let go

The stone remembers
When my own voice disappears
The stone remembers
Past the reach of human years

[Outro]
Stone remembers
Skin forgets
Blood runs forward
Stone holds debt