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Your Name

from The Valley by Nancy Burke

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Your Name

Your name, your name is the longest vowel
It starts in a whimper and it ends in a growl
And it’s trailing smoke and coal and moan
Your name, your name is a train.

And oh, darling, see that track contracting
Swallowed by the glowing tight-lipped groan of the far horizon!

Your name is a snowball rolling down a road
It’s picking up cold and snow as it grows
Picking up leaves and sticks and bones,
Your name is fifty-three words for home

And oh, darling, don’t you know the world is melting
Rivers of stone will overflow the flanks of the wide-roaming rivers.

(Your name, calling your name, calling your name, calling your name)

Your name, your name, your name’s to blame
For drought of sound, for howl of doubt,
But when the earth is cracked and veined,
Your name, your name is the rain.
Yes, when the earth is parched and veined,
Your name, your name is the rain.

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from The Valley, released June 4, 2022
Music and Lyrics -- Nancy Burke
Vocals -- Nancy Burke. Eugenia Elliott
Recorded and mixed at Kernel Sound Emporium by Steve Dawson
Mastered by Carl Saff

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