The Word for Staying

Intro

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Verse 1

Seven gates of salt along the shoreline

I counted every stone that the tide forgot

Mama said the water keeps a ledger

Every promise dropped

Every name I never got

Pre-Chorus

I traded my tongue for a ticket

I traded my home for a map

I traded my tongue for a ticket

Chorus

Find me where the two rivers argue

Find me where the two rivers argue

I am neither bank nor boat

I am the part that floats

Drop

Hold the rope hold the rope

Let it pull you where it wants

Verse 2

Copper on my wrists from the old parade

Cousins in three languages call my name

Half of me is weather half is warehouse

Half of me is flame

Half of me the same

Pre-Chorus

I traded my tongue for a ticket

I traded my home for a map

I traded my tongue for a ticket

Chorus

Find me where the two rivers argue

Find me where the two rivers argue

I am neither bank nor boat

I am the part that floats

Drop

Hold the rope hold the rope

Let it pull you where it wants

Hold the rope hold the rope

Let it pull you where it wants

Bridge

Grandmother grandmother grandmother

Teach me the word for staying

Teach me the word for staying

Grandmother grandmother grandmother

Teach me the word for staying

Not the word for gone

Chorus

Find me where the two rivers argue

Find me where the two rivers argue

I am neither bank nor boat

I am the part that floats

Outro

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