Namesake from Famine by Paint It Black
Tracklist
| 7. | Namesake | 2:47 |
Lyrics
(for Judah Adar)
This is a love song,
a prayer for patience.
Sent from a place between exhaustion and elation.
You are a vice grip,
a battering ram.
You are the Lion, I am the lamb.
An avalanche, and you were the first stone.
Stitches neat and tight, but I came unsewn.
Home to mother, son & daughter
is breath returning to the lung after being underwater.
There will be days as dark as the space between the stars, but there is light for us to navigate the map made of our scars.
Lost, love is a compass. It will encompass, absolute.
Far from home, love knows no border. It is the seed, it is the root.
Can we look back a generation and retrace our steps? Some paths diverge, some intercept.
Your namesake crossed a sea to set himself free.
Empire City bound, in the Bronx he ran aground.
He built things with his hands in a shop downtown.
His body was an anchor,gold turned into lead,
but his heart and his mind were always soaring overhead.
Books and records were his wings.
They’re my wings too,
and this is what we’re passing on to you.
