Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song A Hymn for the Exiled , by - Anaïs Mitchell. Song from the album Hymns for the Exiled, in the genre Release date: 11.05.2008
Record label: Wilderland
Song language: English
A Hymn for the Exiled |
| One two three four five six seven |
| The word came down to him from heaven |
| And naked as an animal he knew |
| Everything of flesh and bone |
| He could call it all his own |
| If he could name it |
| He could lay claim to it too |
| But after all the word was spoken |
| You sent him out into the open |
| All alone to make his broken promise |
| Whole again |
| Eight nine ten eleven twelve |
| Did you see how far he fell |
| And did you watch him |
| Covering his body in his shame |
| Wanting you near him |
| Though you couldn’t hear him |
| He was falling down |
| With your name in his mouth |
| A thousand thousand years pass through me |
| Stoned on loneliness and movies |
| Where people make their love in foreign tongues |
| Every family locks their door |
| Every man in uniform |
| Reminds me of the body of my own one |
| I knew you before I met you |
| I’ve forgotten why I left you |
| All I wanna do is get back in to your good grace |
| Call you by your hundred names |
| Till it makes you mine again |
| Until I get my will back in this god-forsaken place |
| I want you near me |
| I know you can’t hear now |
| But I’m falling down with your name |
| I want you near me |
| I wish you could hear me now |
| While I’m falling down |
| With your name in my mouth |