Hold Your Name

Lyrics

Verse 1
They packed him off in the middle of the night,
No papers, no proof, just a neighborhood fight.
Kids missed birthdays, a mother bowed her head,
Words left unsaid for the living and the dead.
The story keeps twisting like smoke in the air,
Witnesses falter, and no one seems to care.
Ten months of questions and not one reply,
Still he holds steady, keeps looking to the sky.

Pre-Chorus
And the days kept on dragging
Through the hard, empty rooms
But truth has a heartbeat
It won’t stay consumed

Chorus
We are calling out, we are lighting a flame,
For the man behind the bars and the weight of his name.
Rais
Rais, we won’t let it fade,
Rais, bring him home today.

Verse 2
A sister kept pictures in a shoebox lid,
A father kept quiet, but he knew what he hid.
The hallway got colder every time they lied,
And the whole block listened when the tears ran dry.
He signed his own courage with a line of grace,
No chain can erase what they know from his face.
So we stand at the gate and we speak what is true,
If they took his morning, we’ll bring it back through.

Pre-Chorus
And the rumors keep breaking
Like glass in the wind
But truth has a way of
Returning again

Chorus
We are calling out, we are lighting a flame,
For the man behind the bars and the weight of his name.
Rais
Rais, we won’t let it fade,
Rais, bring him home today.

Bridge
Let the record be shaken,
Let the falsehoods fall down,
Every mother still waiting
Deserves an answer now.
If the door stays locked tight,
We will not go away,
Till the hands that took morning
Give it all back today.

Final Chorus
We are calling out, we are lighting a flame,
For the man behind the bars and the weight of his name.
Rais
Rais, we won’t let it fade,
Rais, bring him home today.
We are calling out, we are lighting a flame,
For the man behind the bars and the weight of his name.
Rais
Rais, bring him home today.