歌詞

I went into the firs

With my pocket full of rain

Your old name on my tongue

Like a thorn I couldn't tame

The birches leaned in quiet

And the mud knew my shoes

Every step I took alone

Made the dark give clues

Then the creek said my first breath

Then the owl said it twice

A small white hand in the branches

Turned my fear to ice

I heard my own voice answer

From a root under stone

Saying come a little closer

You don't have to roam alone

The forest gives back your name

The forest gives back your name

When I walk through the black

It calls me by the flame

The forest gives back your name

The forest gives back your name

And I come home changed

When it gives back your name

There was moss on the fallen fence

And a fox at the gate

The leaves kept their old secrets

Like a card at midnight's plate

I saw my name in the water

Then it slipped through my hands

But the reeds kept singing softly

What the living understand

Then the creek said my first breath

Then the owl said it twice

A small white hand in the branches

Turned my fear to ice

I heard my own voice answer

From a root under stone

Saying come a little closer

You don't have to roam alone

The forest gives back your name

The forest gives back your name

When I walk through the black

It calls me by the flame

The forest gives back your name

The forest gives back your name

And I come home changed

When it gives back your name

I was never lost forever

Only hidden from the light

Took a crown of broken acorns

Let the dark revise

Now the wind knows what to call me

When the branch bows low

I was given back in pieces

That is how I grow

The forest gives back your name

The forest gives back your name

When I walk through the black

It calls me by the flame

The forest gives back your name

The forest gives back your name

And I come home changed

When it gives back your name