Singing Strings

Lyrics

They named the stars after dead kings Who never saw the people that they ruled My father built a life with his bare hands And no one wrote his name in any book But you hold me like I matter Like my ordinary life means something vast And suddenly I understand why people pray Not for salvation, just for someone who will stay When everything I've built turns back to dust You make me feel like I was worth the trouble My mother planted roses every spring Though no one came to see her garden bloom She died believing she was unremarkable Just another person passing through But you hold me like I matter Like my ordinary life means something vast And suddenly I understand why people pray Not for salvation, just for someone who will stay When everything I've built turns back to dust You make me feel like I was worth the trouble History remembers the conquerors But forgets the ones who made life bearable Someone loved those kings when they were small Before the wars, before the monuments and lies You love me like that before I'm anything at all They'll forget my name the moment I am gone But you knew me here, and that was everything