Stone Keeps The Name

Hands in the earth, cold with the years
Names cut deep where the living won't hear
No songs for the loud, no crowns for the proud
Just marks in the stone when the fire burns out

Steel laid down, brief turned thin
No gold goes with us under the skin
What's spoken fades, what's written remains
When blood is quiet, stone keeps the name

We don't beg the sky to remember our breath
We leave truth behind in the weight of our death
Stone keeps the name when voices are gone
Stone keeps the name when the night moves on

Our flesh will fall, fires will die
But the mark stands firm when time walks by
Stone keeps the name
Mother stood watch when the halls went dark

Carried the line when the men left marks
Elders spoke low so the truth stayed sharp
Not all strength roars, some strength guards
No lies carved where the dead lie still
Only what was earned, only iron will

No prayers shouted into the flame
Just hands on stone and the name
We don't chase songs, the crowd will praise

We carve our worth where time won't erase
Stone keeps the name when voices are gone
Stone keeps the name when the night moves on

Our flesh will fall, fires will die
But the mark stands firm when time walks by
Stone keeps the name
Let the storm pass, let the world forget

We were here, and the stone remembers it
We were here
Stone keeps the name through ash and rain
Stone keeps the name through loss and pain

No throne, no song, no borrowed flame
Just truth set deep
Stone keeps the name
Hands leave the stone, but the stone does not forget
Stone keeps the name
Hands leave the stone, but the stone does not forget

Stone keeps the name
Stone keeps the name
Stone keeps the name