The Lamp Still Knows Your Name

Lyrics

There's a tower on the headland where the grey road ends
Where the fog comes in like an old friend
Nobody climbs the stairs now, the keeper's long gone
But the lamp keeps turning, turning on

The lamp still knows your name
Through the salt and the wind and the rain
Wherever you've been, however far you've strayed
It sweeps the dark and waits for you to say
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
The lamp still knows your name

I was seventeen when I left that town
With a suitcase and a chip on my shoulder, and a sound
Of the foghorn calling low behind the bus
I swore I'd never look back, I didn't think it'd cost us

The lamp still knows your name
Through the salt and the wind and the rain
Wherever you've been, however far you've strayed
It sweeps the dark and waits for you to say
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
The lamp still knows your name

Thirty years of motel rooms and neon signs
None of them ever shone the way that light does
Slow and steady, over the water, over the stones
Saying you don't have to be anybody, just be home

Now I'm standing on the rocks where the tide rolls in
The beam goes past me, and it circles back again
Like a hand held out in the dark, patient and kind
Like somebody left a light on for me to find

The lamp still knows your name
Through the salt and the wind and the rain
Wherever you've been, however far you've strayed
It sweeps the dark and waits for you to say
I'm coming home, I'm coming home
The lamp still knows your name

Turning, turning, slow and low
The lamp still knows
The lamp still knows