The Wheel of Time

[intro] He kept the blade behind the coats He only drew it after dark A heron caught the kitchen lamp I watched him turn the edge to light [verse] Tam, you never told me why it waited You wiped the oil and put it back I thought it was a farmer's secret I thought the heron was just steel Lan makes me stand before the sun He says again, and I turn again My hands blister and I hide it The grip still fits a farmer's fists [pre-chorus] People ask where I got this They stare like I was born armed I took what you left hanging I only wanted to be yours [chorus] I carry his sword, I carry his name I still don't know if I deserve either I carry his sword, I carry his name Tam, tell me I am still your son I carry his sword, I carry his name I still don't know if I deserve either I carry his sword, I carry his name Tam, tell me I am still your son [post-chorus] The heron on the blade is yours You earned it, I only hold it I carry his sword, I carry his name Don't let them take you from me [verse] They ask who put me in your house They ask about a mountain fever I do not care how I arrived I care that you still call me boy At Falme fire took the steel away The herons burned into my palms I still reach back for your old hilt I still want your kitchen and your name [pre-chorus] People ask where I got this They stare like I was born armed I took what you left hanging I only wanted to be yours [chorus] I carry his sword, I carry his name I still don't know if I deserve either I carry his sword, I carry his name Tam, tell me I am still your son I carry his sword, I carry his name I still don't know if I deserve either I carry his sword, I carry his name Tam, tell me I am still your son [post-chorus] The heron on the blade is yours You earned it, I only hold it I carry his sword, I carry his name Don't let them take you from me [bridge] I am afraid I am not yours I am afraid the questions win I practice in the dark like you did I pay that hour before the sun If I am someone else's blood Then let me still be Tam's to raise I need the heron to mean father I need your name against my mouth [chorus] I carry his sword, I carry his name I still don't know if I deserve either I carry his sword, I carry his name Tam, tell me I am still your son I carry his sword, I carry his name I still don't know if I deserve either I carry his sword, I carry his name Tam, tell me I am still your son [outro] I carry his sword, I carry his name The grip still knows your two fists I carry his sword, I carry his name Call me yours and I can stand

[intro] The Horn rang out across the fighting The sky wore every move I made I fought as if the world had shrunk To one man's blade and my two hands [verse] Mat blew it, I heard the dead ride They called a title through the smoke The fire burned in Ba'alzamon's eyes He told me I belonged to him I held the void while fire came through My palms went raw against his light Egwene was somewhere in that town I had to stay until I knew [pre-chorus] The people pointed at the sky They named a banner in my burn I felt the pain, they felt a sign I want the ground and my body [chorus] They saw me, they saw me in the sky I was only trying not to fall They saw me, they saw me in the sky I want the ground, that is all They saw me, they saw me in the sky I was only trying not to fall They saw me, they saw me in the sky I want the ground, that is all [post-chorus] When I woke, I could not stand Ash keeps falling in my mouth They saw me, they saw me in the sky I want their eyes to look away [verse] A stranger calls me Dragon there I cannot make my fingers spread The light has faded from the sky I hear the name around my bed I did not mean to be a picture I meant to live one more hour They cheer a shape I cannot feel I hide the burns along my palm [pre-chorus] The people pointed at the sky They named a banner in my burn I felt the pain, they felt a sign I want the ground and my body [chorus] They saw me, they saw me in the sky I was only trying not to fall They saw me, they saw me in the sky I want the ground, that is all They saw me, they saw me in the sky I was only trying not to fall They saw me, they saw me in the sky I want the ground, that is all [post-chorus] When I woke, I could not stand Ash keeps falling in my mouth They saw me, they saw me in the sky I want their eyes to look away [bridge] I am frightened they never stop I am frightened I'll stay up there They keep a sign where I had pain I need a room with a shut door If I am useful only burning I am already gone from me Please let me walk the street unnamed Please let the sky forget my face [chorus] They saw me, they saw me in the sky I was only trying not to fall They saw me, they saw me in the sky I want the ground, that is all They saw me, they saw me in the sky I was only trying not to fall They saw me, they saw me in the sky I want the ground, that is all [outro] They saw me, they saw me in the sky I still feel that empty air They saw me, they saw me in the sky Give me the ground, I'm still here

[intro] Tell me her name, tell me her name I wrote a line without a word The ink stayed wet upon the page I cannot put the page away [verse] She wanted room beside my fire The sword of flame was in my hand I cut her down before she struck I never asked what she was called The flame went out, her face remained I tried to name her through the night The men beside her could not answer I keep her in the unnamed row [pre-chorus] I try to say I had no choice The list still lengthens in my head A grave without a word on it Keeps asking me to fill it in [chorus] Tell me her name, tell me her name I cannot lay her in the ground Tell me her name, tell me her name I will not add a blank again Tell me her name, tell me her name I cannot lay her in the ground Tell me her name, tell me her name I will not add a blank again [post-chorus] Tell me her name, tell me her name Say it once and I will sleep Leave the others off the page tonight I am tired of counting holes [verse] Women I failed and never even met I see them standing in the dark A miller's daughter taken in a raid A sister I did not ride after I keep a private tally in a book It cannot bring a single one back I say I did it to protect them The unnamed ones still do not speak [pre-chorus] I try to say I had no choice The list still lengthens in my head A grave without a word on it Keeps asking me to fill it in [chorus] Tell me her name, tell me her name I cannot lay her in the ground Tell me her name, tell me her name I will not add a blank again Tell me her name, tell me her name I cannot lay her in the ground Tell me her name, tell me her name I will not add a blank again [post-chorus] Tell me her name, tell me her name Say it once and I will sleep Leave the others off the page tonight I am tired of counting holes [bridge] I want the names so I can stop I want the names so I can hurt If I can say her once out loud I think the rest might let me breathe That is a lie I tell the dark I know the asking does no good I still lean forward when I dream And wait for someone to begin it [chorus] Tell me her name, tell me her name I cannot lay her in the ground Tell me her name, tell me her name I will not add a blank again Tell me her name, tell me her name I cannot lay her in the ground Tell me her name, tell me her name I will not add a blank again [outro] The page is open on my knee I cannot lay her in the ground I keep on asking through the night Tell me her name, tell me her name

[intro] The Stone had never taken a fall Children learned that like a prayer I walked the hall beneath the sword I wanted someone standing there [verse] The Aiel reach the inner halls I draw Callandor from its light A body lies where fire had stood Beyond the door they call my name The lords go down upon the steps I count the knees I did not ask I hold the blade so they can see it I want a face, I want a word [pre-chorus] You take the fortress like a sign You treat my hands like they are holy I came to take the sword I wanted one true look from you [chorus] Stand up, please stand up, look at me Talk to me like I have a name Stand up, please stand up, look at me Give me a voice that answers back Stand up, please stand up, look at me Talk to me like I have a name Stand up, please stand up, look at me Give me a voice that answers back [post-chorus] I set the crystal in the floor I leave a ward around the blade Stand up, please stand up, look at me Don't kneel just because I won [verse] A flaw is waiting in the sword I have not learned to name it yet The gates are open, horsemen wait The halls still smell of dust and blood A young lord will not lift his head I almost shake him by the coat I want to ask about his home I want him standing when we speak [pre-chorus] You take the fortress like a sign You treat my hands like they are holy I came to take the sword I wanted one true look from you [chorus] Stand up, please stand up, look at me Talk to me like I have a name Stand up, please stand up, look at me Give me a voice that answers back Stand up, please stand up, look at me Talk to me like I have a name Stand up, please stand up, look at me Give me a voice that answers back [post-chorus] I set the crystal in the floor I leave a ward around the blade Stand up, please stand up, look at me Don't kneel just because I won [bridge] I am lonely in this victory I am younger than this room believes If you stay down I disappear I become a sword and nothing else Please hate me if you have to hate me Please argue, please refuse the knee I need a person in this hall I need you looking at my face [chorus] Stand up, please stand up, look at me Talk to me like I have a name Stand up, please stand up, look at me Give me a voice that answers back Stand up, please stand up, look at me Talk to me like I have a name Stand up, please stand up, look at me Give me a voice that answers back [outro] Stand up, please stand up, look at me The Stone is ours and I am tired Stand up, please stand up, look at me Say my name like I am here

[intro] I put my palm against the glass The mist took hold, I lost the path A stranger's morning filled my mouth I could not spit it out again [verse] The wagons carried tree and grain A man took up a spear for kin His mother would not speak his name He stood outside, she stayed within Before the spear, before the sand They carried water through a square The towers shone above the leaves I heard a song in every street [pre-chorus] I thought I knew what Aiel meant I thought the Waste had always been The columns tore that story open I walked out changed and still not ready [chorus] I saw your fathers, they looked like me I watched them lay the leaf aside I saw your fathers, they looked like me I cannot put that peace back in I saw your fathers, they looked like me I watched them lay the leaf aside I saw your fathers, they looked like me I cannot put that peace back in [post-chorus] I came to learn a desert law I left with someone else's shame I saw your fathers, they looked like me I carry that look in my face [verse] A woman sang and would not fight A child learned the spear by hunger I felt my own hands want the blade I felt my own mouth want the song I came out marked and barely standing The Wise Ones watched me like a test I wanted water on my tongue I wanted Tam and home and sheep [pre-chorus] I thought I knew what Aiel meant I thought the Waste had always been The columns tore that story open I walked out changed and still not ready [chorus] I saw your fathers, they looked like me I watched them lay the leaf aside I saw your fathers, they looked like me I cannot put that peace back in I saw your fathers, they looked like me I watched them lay the leaf aside I saw your fathers, they looked like me I cannot put that peace back in [post-chorus] I came to learn a desert law I left with someone else's shame I saw your fathers, they looked like me I carry that look in my face [bridge] I thought my blood was simple farm I thought the Waste was someone else's Then every father in that glass Had my jaw, my stubborn mouth I am ashamed I liked the spear I am ashamed I mourned the leaf I do not know which man I am I only know I saw you then [chorus] I saw your fathers, they looked like me I watched them lay the leaf aside I saw your fathers, they looked like me I cannot put that peace back in I saw your fathers, they looked like me I watched them lay the leaf aside I saw your fathers, they looked like me I cannot put that peace back in [outro] I saw your fathers, they looked like me I still can hear that old lost song I saw your fathers, they looked like me I still taste dust where water was

[intro] You marked me coming out of Rhuidean The dragons glitter on my arms You called me by the old hard name I have no kinder news than this [verse] The chiefs have walked the glass and know I stand and tell you what they saw Your fathers served, then took the spear Your peace is gone, I will not hide it Couladin lifts marked arms and lies The Shaido turn and follow him I watch the empty places grow I will not chase them with a tale [pre-chorus] You asked the dawn to send a chief You asked a man to make you whole I only have the columns' proof I only have the breaking word [chorus] You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I watched the clans break on it You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I will not sweeten what you heard You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I watched the clans break on it You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I will not sweeten what you heard [post-chorus] Some of you will leave me standing Some of you will call me chief You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I am sorry it had to cut [verse] Your holds are yours, I don't want them This job sits badly in my mouth I have to lead you from this Waste The sun keeps climbing while you shout A shepherd hears the clansmen argue I leave old names where they lie If I am Car'a'carn then listen I will not lie to keep you kind [pre-chorus] You asked the dawn to send a chief You asked a man to make you whole I only have the columns' proof I only have the breaking word [chorus] You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I watched the clans break on it You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I will not sweeten what you heard You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I watched the clans break on it You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I will not sweeten what you heard [post-chorus] Some of you will leave me standing Some of you will call me chief You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I am sorry it had to cut [bridge] I am ashamed the truth is useful I hate that I need you on my side Duty is the reason I stay I take no pleasure in your split If I could leave you with your story I would walk back to Tam tonight I speak because the glass made me I speak because you asked the dawn [chorus] You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I watched the clans break on it You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I will not sweeten what you heard You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I watched the clans break on it You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth I will not sweeten what you heard [outro] You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth The dragons stay whether you kneel You wanted a savior, I brought you the truth Come with me anyway if you can

[intro] The last request still sits here They shut the doors an hour ago I keep the candle burning low Lord of the Morning, let me sleep [verse] They bowed until my neck went tight A merchant asked for grain again I signed the paper with both names The hall kept filling after dusk A captain wanted the horses watered A widow wanted blood for blood I stood and heard them one by one My chair grew colder as they spoke [pre-chorus] I cannot take one more bow tonight I drop the pen and leave it there The servants left the lamps for me I want the dark to hold tonight [chorus] Lord of the Morning, let me sleep Leave the requests there on the floor Lord of the Morning, let me sleep I will not answer anyone till dawn Lord of the Morning, let me sleep Leave the requests there on the floor Lord of the Morning, let me sleep I will not answer anyone till dawn [post-chorus] Blow the last candle out for me Lord of the Morning, let me sleep Do not bring names into this room Give me a night that asks for nothing [verse] I hear the Maidens in the yard They laugh like I could walk away I lock the latch and sit back down The heron brands still ache at night Tam would have sent them all to bed I keep the chair because they wait Another rider waits beside the door I tell him wait until the morning [pre-chorus] I cannot take one more bow tonight I drop the pen and leave it there The servants left the lamps for me I want the dark to hold tonight [chorus] Lord of the Morning, let me sleep Leave the requests there on the floor Lord of the Morning, let me sleep I will not answer anyone till dawn Lord of the Morning, let me sleep Leave the requests there on the floor Lord of the Morning, let me sleep I will not answer anyone till dawn [post-chorus] Blow the last candle out for me Lord of the Morning, let me sleep Do not bring names into this room Give me a night that asks for nothing [bridge] I liked the way they said the title It made the farm boy disappear Now every bow is one more task I sold the quiet for the name Lews Therin never got to rest I wear his morning like a coat I am afraid to close my eyes They might still need me in the dark [chorus] Lord of the Morning, let me sleep Leave the requests there on the floor Lord of the Morning, let me sleep I will not answer anyone till dawn Lord of the Morning, let me sleep Leave the requests there on the floor Lord of the Morning, let me sleep I will not answer anyone till dawn [outro] The ink can dry without my hand Leave the requests there on the floor I only want until the morning Lord of the Morning, let me sleep

[intro] Open the box, let me out The lid sits a hand from my mouth I cannot straighten out my spine I have been counting blows for days [verse] They shut me in and let me bake I learned the boards by every knot Galina had them lift the lid To beat me and to shut it fast I could not find the flame and void The dark kept pressing on my teeth I chewed the air and named the hours Lews Therin talked to keep me here [pre-chorus] I will tear the hinges with my hands I will burn the wagon where it stands Just lift the wood a finger width I cannot take another night [chorus] Open the box, let me out I cannot feel my legs or sky Open the box, let me out I will not die inside this wood Open the box, let me out I cannot feel my legs or sky Open the box, let me out I will not die inside this wood [post-chorus] Kick the latch and drag me upright Open the box, let me out I do not care who sees me crawl Give me one breath of open air [verse] I broke the shield and burst the chest I stood and could not stop the shaking Perrin fought through to reach my side Then Taim brought killing to the field The earth went soft and men went under Sisters fell and kept on falling I tasted blood and heard them scream The rescue did not feel like winning [pre-chorus] I will tear the hinges with my hands I will burn the wagon where it stands Just lift the wood a finger width I cannot take another night [chorus] Open the box, let me out I cannot feel my legs or sky Open the box, let me out I will not die inside this wood Open the box, let me out I cannot feel my legs or sky Open the box, let me out I will not die inside this wood [post-chorus] Kick the latch and drag me upright Open the box, let me out I do not care who sees me crawl Give me one breath of open air [bridge] I wanted every board in splinters I wanted Galina on her knees When they knelt I made them stay there I liked the fear. That sickens me. Min keeps the shutters open now I still wake reaching for the lid I got out filthy and still shaking The box still sits inside my ribs [chorus] Open the box, let me out I cannot feel my legs or sky Open the box, let me out I will not die inside this wood Open the box, let me out I cannot feel my legs or sky Open the box, let me out I will not die inside this wood [outro] Open the box, let me out I am standing and I still say it Give me one breath of open air Do not shut a single door tonight

[intro] There is a man inside the quiet He knows the names I never learned I wake with light across my hands I force the room back into sight [verse] Lews Therin, you weep when morning comes You want the Power through the night I have a horse, a hundred men I hear you underneath the drums They fold me small to fit the box I cannot put my shoulders straight You tell me how the shields are tied I listen and I learn to wait [pre-chorus] I say my name to keep the floor I say my father is still Tam The voice goes quiet for a while It never travels very far [chorus] Get out of my head, let me think I cannot tell your grief from mine Get out of my head, let me think Lews Therin, leave my name alone Get out of my head, let me think I cannot tell your grief from mine Get out of my head, let me think Lews Therin, leave my name alone [post-chorus] I am Rand al'Thor, I say it Flame and void will hold a minute Get out of my head, let me think Do not make my memories yours [verse] At Dumais Wells I tore the shield I heard an order in the dust Two men inside one waking body I have to choose which thought to trust You loved a woman I never met You lost a city I never walked I start to miss her in my sleep That is the part that makes me sick [pre-chorus] I say my name to keep the floor I say my father is still Tam The voice goes quiet for a while It never travels very far [chorus] Get out of my head, let me think I cannot tell your grief from mine Get out of my head, let me think Lews Therin, leave my name alone Get out of my head, let me think I cannot tell your grief from mine Get out of my head, let me think Lews Therin, leave my name alone [post-chorus] I am Rand al'Thor, I say it Flame and void will hold a minute Get out of my head, let me think Do not make my memories yours [bridge] I am angry you will not be silent I am frightened you are also me If these memories belong to both Then I am already half erased I need one hour with my own mind I need to finish one true sentence Please stop weeping in my mouth Please let me be Tam's son today [chorus] Get out of my head, let me think I cannot tell your grief from mine Get out of my head, let me think Lews Therin, leave my name alone Get out of my head, let me think I cannot tell your grief from mine Get out of my head, let me think Lews Therin, leave my name alone [outro] Get out of my head, let me think I still can find the farm if I try Get out of my head, let me think Rand, stay Rand, do not slip yet

[intro] Those were your hands, they weren't mine You put that hallway in my head Ilyena lying by the door Gold in her hair. Blood on the boards [verse] You walk me down that stairwell every night Three children waiting on the landing I try to move. I cannot reach them I still can name the way they stood You keep saying she was quiet You need that quiet in your mouth I was asleep in Tam's loft You did this in a hall I never walked [pre-chorus] Lews Therin, take her off me Get your dead out of my bed I know their faces when I sleep That is your blood. Get it off [chorus] Those were your hands, they weren't mine Get her body off my floor Those were your hands, they weren't mine Stop laying Ilyena at my feet Those were your hands, they weren't mine Get her body off my floor Those were your hands, they weren't mine Stop laying Ilyena at my feet [post-chorus] Get out of the room in my skull I have my own dead to keep Leave her name out of my mouth Those were your hands, they weren't mine [verse] I call Tam father when I wake Min sits and watches while I shake You talk like I lit that house I woke up holding someone else's ash saidin still tastes like what you did I draw it anyway. It has to be done You scream the old names through my teeth I bite down. I keep my own [pre-chorus] Lews Therin, take her off me Get your dead out of my bed I know their faces when I sleep That is your blood. Get it off [chorus] Those were your hands, they weren't mine Get her body off my floor Those were your hands, they weren't mine Stop laying Ilyena at my feet Those were your hands, they weren't mine Get her body off my floor Those were your hands, they weren't mine Stop laying Ilyena at my feet [post-chorus] Get out of the room in my skull I have my own dead to keep Leave her name out of my mouth Those were your hands, they weren't mine [bridge] What if I reach for Elayne next What if Aviendha has to pay I keep Min farther than I should I am afraid my hands will learn You loved them once and killed them all I hear you laughing when I kiss That is the part I cannot stand I might become you if I stay [chorus] Those were your hands, they weren't mine Get her body off my floor Those were your hands, they weren't mine Stop laying Ilyena at my feet Those were your hands, they weren't mine Get her body off my floor Those were your hands, they weren't mine Stop laying Ilyena at my feet [outro] I keep saying it into the dark Those were your hands, they weren't mine Stop laying Ilyena at my feet Get her body off my floor

[intro] I move the lamp down to the floor I leave the door an inch from shut I tell myself you will stay out You come in anyway and sit [verse] Min breaks the bread before I speak She knows the speech about the dead I tell her she should leave tonight She takes the empty chair instead Her shoulder finds my hanging hand I pull it back like it could burn her She asks what I ate, if I slept I want her near, I want her safe [pre-chorus] If you stay close the danger finds you If you stay close I cannot breathe I want your weight against my chest I want you far enough to live [chorus] Come closer, I'm scared to hold you I keep my hands back from your hair Come closer, I'm scared to hold you Stay if you must, I am not safe Come closer, I'm scared to hold you I keep my hands back from your hair Come closer, I'm scared to hold you Stay if you must, I am not safe [post-chorus] Elayne, you put the letters down You ask how long I mean to stay Come closer, I'm scared to hold you I start to tell you what I owe [verse] Aviendha leaves a folded coat Beside the chair I meant to leave She does not ask how long I'll stay She stays until I start to breathe I want her wrist against my mouth I want to hear her in the hall I warn her, and she takes my face I flinch because I want it badly [pre-chorus] If you stay close the danger finds you If you stay close I cannot breathe I want your weight against my chest I want you far enough to live [chorus] Come closer, I'm scared to hold you I keep my hands back from your hair Come closer, I'm scared to hold you Stay if you must, I am not safe Come closer, I'm scared to hold you I keep my hands back from your hair Come closer, I'm scared to hold you Stay if you must, I am not safe [post-chorus] Elayne, you put the letters down You ask how long I mean to stay Come closer, I'm scared to hold you I start to tell you what I owe [bridge] I like being needed, that's the shame I like you coming through the door I preach the distance like a kindness I keep the chair I moved for you If I hold you, you become a mark If I don't hold you I go mean Come sit, and let me fail at leaving Come sit, and let me shake and stay [chorus] Come closer, I'm scared to hold you I keep my hands back from your hair Come closer, I'm scared to hold you Stay if you must, I am not safe Come closer, I'm scared to hold you I keep my hands back from your hair Come closer, I'm scared to hold you Stay if you must, I am not safe [outro] Come closer, I'm scared to hold you Your hair still smells like outside air Come closer, I'm scared to hold you I will not send you out tonight

[intro] I thought I would marry Egwene I thought one house, one quiet year I did not ask for three of you I do not know how to stop hurting you [verse] Elayne, you set the letters down You ask how long I mean to stay I start the speech to send you off You wait until I look away Min, you already saw the three You sit there with a book and wait You know the lie before I say it You stay anyway, and I go sick [pre-chorus] I try to pick a single road I fail inside the same closed room I cannot love you one by one I cannot make this fair [chorus] I didn't plan to love you all I keep on trying to choose and fail I didn't plan to love you all I hate that I can hurt you still I didn't plan to love you all I keep on trying to choose and fail I didn't plan to love you all I hate that I can hurt you still [post-chorus] You deserve a man who picked one I keep on splitting what I feel I didn't plan to love you all I am sorry I cannot undo it [verse] Aviendha, you fold the coat I lost You make me ask you what it cost I reach and you will not make it easy You stay until I start to breathe I warn you what the bond will do The pain I carry jumps to you I try to keep you at a distance You step in closer every time [pre-chorus] I try to pick a single road I fail inside the same closed room I cannot love you one by one I cannot make this fair [chorus] I didn't plan to love you all I keep on trying to choose and fail I didn't plan to love you all I hate that I can hurt you still I didn't plan to love you all I keep on trying to choose and fail I didn't plan to love you all I hate that I can hurt you still [post-chorus] You deserve a man who picked one I keep on splitting what I feel I didn't plan to love you all I am sorry I cannot undo it [bridge] I still can see that old small wedding Egwene and me, the inn, the green That picture will not leave my head It makes a shame I cannot say I love you three and I am frightened You will compare the way I look I cannot make this even-handed I only know I want you here [chorus] I didn't plan to love you all I keep on trying to choose and fail I didn't plan to love you all I hate that I can hurt you still I didn't plan to love you all I keep on trying to choose and fail I didn't plan to love you all I hate that I can hurt you still [outro] I didn't plan to love you all I keep your names inside my mouth I didn't plan to love you all Please tell me if you want me out

[intro] The access key sits in my hands The city waits to eat the taint Nynaeve, you take the other half I cannot do this work alone [verse] Shadar Logoth keeps its old hate A city rotting on its own I draw the taint toward that hollow I hold the current through the stone The others spread around the hill The Chosen come, I cannot look You keep the flows from tearing loose I keep the saidin in my teeth [pre-chorus] I never tasted this without filth I have not trusted it to stay If this works I still will check it If this fails you go down with me [chorus] It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean I reach and find no poison there It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean I try again, it's still the same It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean I reach and find no poison there It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean I try again, it's still the same [post-chorus] The towers fold into a hollow A taste of water fills my mouth It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean We did that, and I still don't trust it [verse] I wake and draw a little, then let go I draw again to make quite sure You look as tired as I must look The current rises free of filth The old madness is not gone from men This hour does not fix every head I only know the Source came clear We held it till the filth was gone [pre-chorus] I never tasted this without filth I have not trusted it to stay If this works I still will check it If this fails you go down with me [chorus] It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean I reach and find no poison there It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean I try again, it's still the same It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean I reach and find no poison there It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean I try again, it's still the same [post-chorus] The towers fold into a hollow A taste of water fills my mouth It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean We did that, and I still don't trust it [bridge] I wanted this for every man I wanted this so I could sleep I am afraid to celebrate I am afraid the taint will sneak back You did this with me, do not leave yet Sit on this hill until I stop shaking I laugh because I cannot cry I check the Power one more time [chorus] It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean I reach and find no poison there It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean I try again, it's still the same It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean I reach and find no poison there It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean I try again, it's still the same [outro] It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean I taste it like a dare, then stop It's clean, Nynaeve, it's clean Say it back so I believe you

[intro] You smile when I come in hurt You call the blood a finished page I paid it with my own hands Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose [verse] A sister told me it was woven A lord said I was meant to fall They pointed, nodding, at the Stone I still climbed those steps myself I asked for water in the Waste You called the drink a promised sign I buried men I chose to lead You blessed the graves and called them meant [pre-chorus] Do not dress my wounds in meaning I felt them open as they happened I stood there and I picked a door I walked through it by myself [chorus] Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose I chose the harder road that morning Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose I am the one who pays this bill Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose I chose the harder road that morning Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose I am the one who pays this bill [post-chorus] Take prophecy out of your mouth Look at the choice still on the table I want the credit and the blame Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose [verse] You sit and wait for me to finish As if the Pattern does the work I send the letters in the night I leave a town that will not eat A farrier followed from my village I told him yes and took him on Tam taught me how to drive a nail He let me miss and drive again [pre-chorus] Do not dress my wounds in meaning I felt them open as they happened I stood there and I picked a door I walked through it by myself [chorus] Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose I chose the harder road that morning Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose I am the one who pays this bill Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose I chose the harder road that morning Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose I am the one who pays this bill [post-chorus] Take prophecy out of your mouth Look at the choice still on the table I want the credit and the blame Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose [bridge] I like when you say inevitable It lets me hide behind your story That is the part that makes me sick I used your comfort as a shield I chose the hard thing, knowing why I want you angry for it Stop blessing every cut I take Call it my doing and sit down [chorus] Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose I chose the harder road that morning Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose I am the one who pays this bill Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose I chose the harder road that morning Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose I am the one who pays this bill [outro] The next door is mine to open Stop calling it fate, I still had to choose Speak without the prophecy tonight Do not make me your useful ending

[intro] The mountain holds me in the wind I came up here to end the noise That thought is heavier than dying I want to love you again [verse] I opened saidin till the rock Went bright and ugly under me I asked why I keep coming back The old voice stopped upon a name I thought of Min laughing somewhere I thought of walking down alive The rage ran out between my teeth I had no argument but you [pre-chorus] The dead stay where I left them I only get to stay and try The world is still a ruin under me I want my hands for something else [chorus] I want to love you again Come down the mountain in the morning I want to love you again I did not climb here just to finish I want to love you again Come down the mountain in the morning I want to love you again I did not climb here just to finish [post-chorus] Stay where I can hear you breathe I am coming off this rock for you Let me sit ordinary in your kitchen I want to love you again [verse] Elayne would argue with the sky Aviendha would not look away Min would make room and pull me near I laughed because the choice was simple I let the Power drain and stood My knees hurt on the cooling stone I started down toward the fields I wanted supper more than legend [pre-chorus] The dead stay where I left them I only get to stay and try The world is still a ruin under me I want my hands for something else [chorus] I want to love you again Come down the mountain in the morning I want to love you again I did not climb here just to finish I want to love you again Come down the mountain in the morning I want to love you again I did not climb here just to finish [post-chorus] Stay where I can hear you breathe I am coming off this rock for you Let me sit ordinary in your kitchen I want to love you again [bridge] I almost chose the empty air I liked the quiet of the peak Loving you means I can fail you That scared me more than any grave I still want it. I want the risk. I want the fight and then the bed I want to say your names out loud And mean them in a living room [chorus] I want to love you again Come down the mountain in the morning I want to love you again I did not climb here just to finish I want to love you again Come down the mountain in the morning I want to love you again I did not climb here just to finish [outro] The fields are coming into view Come down the mountain in the morning I am walking, and I mean it I want to love you again

[intro] You sent me down the lane at dusk The well rope burned my open hands I brought the pail the way you taught I want that errand in your mind [verse] Tam, the sheep still know my whistle I mended that south fence last spring The dogs still wait beside the gate I know the cart wheel that sticks You showed me where the orchard starts I stacked the wood the way you like Please look at these working hands Keep calling out the chores I know [pre-chorus] They keep on saying Dragon, Dragon I keep on hearing your old list I want the village in my name I want the well and the door [chorus] I'm just the boy you sent for water I still can find our well at dusk I'm just the boy you sent for water Please see that boy when you look at me I'm just the boy you sent for water I still can find our well at dusk I'm just the boy you sent for water Please see that boy when you look at me [post-chorus] Don't make me answer like a lord I know the path behind the inn I'm just the boy you sent for water Let me keep that in my skin [verse] The Trollocs broke the wall that night I dragged you through the woods till dawn You burned with fever, said a name I held your coat and kept you moving I still can smell the wet tabac I still can hear the flock come home I want your kitchen table waiting I want your voice to stay the same [pre-chorus] They keep on saying Dragon, Dragon I keep on hearing your old list I want the village in my name I want the well and the door [chorus] I'm just the boy you sent for water I still can find our well at dusk I'm just the boy you sent for water Please see that boy when you look at me I'm just the boy you sent for water I still can find our well at dusk I'm just the boy you sent for water Please see that boy when you look at me [post-chorus] Don't make me answer like a lord I know the path behind the inn I'm just the boy you sent for water Let me keep that in my skin [bridge] I stand in the great Stone of Tear I almost ask about their children I want a man to stay on his feet I want to talk about the fence I am afraid if I say Dragon You will forget the well and pail I need you calling me your boy I need the water, I need Tam [chorus] I'm just the boy you sent for water I still can find our well at dusk I'm just the boy you sent for water Please see that boy when you look at me I'm just the boy you sent for water I still can find our well at dusk I'm just the boy you sent for water Please see that boy when you look at me [outro] I'm just the boy you sent for water The pail still fits my two fists I'm just the boy you sent for water Tam, please keep calling me this

[intro] The crystal burns against my palm I can't hold it alone The current climbs into my wrist The light keeps asking me to drown [verse] I pulled it from the heart of Stone The hall went white and people knelt It felt like I could cut the sky It felt like nothing could refuse me A flaw runs shivering through the blade saidin floods past what I can steer The taint comes riding in the light I grip the hilt and start to shake [pre-chorus] Two women have to take the flows I have to open what I clutch If I keep standing here alone The sword will finish what I start [chorus] I can't hold it alone The crystal wants a wider circle now I can't hold it alone Somebody take the other side from me I can't hold it alone The crystal wants a wider circle now I can't hold it alone Somebody take the other side from me [post-chorus] I can't hold it alone Put your hands where mine are failing I hate how much I have to ask Do not let me keep this by myself [verse] I used to think a single will Could drive the whole thing into place Callandor does not work like that It laughs at anyone who tries Nynaeve, I need you on the flow Moiraine, I need you in the link I have to place it in your hands And let you see me lose the lead [pre-chorus] Two women have to take the flows I have to open what I clutch If I keep standing here alone The sword will finish what I start [chorus] I can't hold it alone The crystal wants a wider circle now I can't hold it alone Somebody take the other side from me I can't hold it alone The crystal wants a wider circle now I can't hold it alone Somebody take the other side from me [post-chorus] I can't hold it alone Put your hands where mine are failing I hate how much I have to ask Do not let me keep this by myself [bridge] I wanted one clean weapon in my fist I wanted no one in my head Asking you in feels like stripping bare You will see how little I control That is the truth I kept from captains This sword eats the man who grips it I cannot win the last fight alone I have to trust you with my throat [chorus] I can't hold it alone The crystal wants a wider circle now I can't hold it alone Somebody take the other side from me I can't hold it alone The crystal wants a wider circle now I can't hold it alone Somebody take the other side from me [outro] Somebody take the other side from me The crystal wants a wider circle now I am opening my hands at last I can't hold it alone

[intro] The mountain sweats against my hand I take the path into the heat Behind me, people hold the world I have to trust they keep their feet [verse] Mat has the armies on the plain Perrin keeps the dream-path hard Nynaeve and Moiraine hold me in I take the strength they carry here I build a farm with unbroken fences A quiet life with no more choosing My father has no will to answer The smiles stay fixed when I look round [pre-chorus] I could decide their lives from here I could make peace by taking choice I will not steal what they can win Their lives are theirs to risk and live [chorus] Let me hold on till they get through I will not take their fight away Let me hold on till they get through Keep me standing in this dark place Let me hold on till they get through I will not take their fight away Let me hold on till they get through Keep me standing in this dark place [post-chorus] The rock grows cool beneath my palm The other voices reach me now Let me hold on till they get through I hear the world beyond the mountain [verse] The world I made would not let them choose I let that perfect picture fall The sword burns in Moridin's hand The circle takes the power it draws I reach beyond the broken seals I bind the wound and close the prison Their living voices stay beyond it I do my part and leave them theirs [pre-chorus] I could decide their lives from here I could make peace by taking choice I will not steal what they can win Their lives are theirs to risk and live [chorus] Let me hold on till they get through I will not take their fight away Let me hold on till they get through Keep me standing in this dark place Let me hold on till they get through I will not take their fight away Let me hold on till they get through Keep me standing in this dark place [post-chorus] The rock grows cool beneath my palm The other voices reach me now Let me hold on till they get through I hear the world beyond the mountain [bridge] I want to run and close it for them I want to pay it all myself That is the lie that almost wins That kindness here would kill them Moiraine, keep me on this path Nynaeve, do not let me slip I trust them, that is all I have I trust them even when I shake [chorus] Let me hold on till they get through I will not take their fight away Let me hold on till they get through Keep me standing in this dark place Let me hold on till they get through I will not take their fight away Let me hold on till they get through Keep me standing in this dark place [outro] Let me hold on till they get through I am still here, I am still choosing Let me hold on till they get through Then let me go, I did my part

[intro] I held a shining world in place My father smiled beside the gate My hands are tired of steering them Let go, let go, let them choose [verse] I built the orchard and the sheep I built a quiet I could keep Tam would not tell me I was wrong He waited while I learned the cost Their faces looked at me for rules I almost wrote the rules in light A good world with no room to fail Is just another kind of box [pre-chorus] I cannot carry every life myself I have to let them miss the turn If I love them I drop the reins I have to leave the road unmapped [chorus] Let go, let go, let them choose I will not make their world for them Let go, let go, let them choose I love them more than my control Let go, let go, let them choose I will not make their world for them Let go, let go, let them choose I love them more than my control [post-chorus] Take the shining picture from my hands Let the fields grow without my plan Let go, let go, let them choose I am still here. I am not ruling. [verse] I put my hands into the dark I felt the Dark One lock the world I would not freeze them where they stood I let the morning keep its weather They burned a face that looked like me Elayne stood grim above the cloth Min watched the road. Aviendha waited. I woke and could not touch saidin [pre-chorus] I cannot carry every life myself I have to let them miss the turn If I love them I drop the reins I have to leave the road unmapped [chorus] Let go, let go, let them choose I will not make their world for them Let go, let go, let them choose I love them more than my control Let go, let go, let them choose I will not make their world for them Let go, let go, let them choose I love them more than my control [post-chorus] Take the shining picture from my hands Let the fields grow without my plan Let go, let go, let them choose I am still here. I am not ruling. [bridge] I wanted them unable to hurt That was the shame I would not say A shepherd playing at a god Because I could not stand their graves I let the saddle take my weight I left the Power in the ash A pipe of tabac in the dark I choose the road and no one's fate [chorus] Let go, let go, let them choose I will not make their world for them Let go, let go, let them choose I love them more than my control Let go, let go, let them choose I will not make their world for them Let go, let go, let them choose I love them more than my control [outro] The wind is pushing me along I love them more than my control I am going, and they can stay Let go, let go, let them choose

[intro] They light a pyre beneath the hill A horse is waiting by the road I lift a pipe with stranger hands I leave the title in the smoke [verse] I wake with hands I do not know I test the fingers one by one The pain that lived beneath my ribs Has left me breathing in the dark I nearly call my father to me I want to tell him I survived For now I have to find the road I want a morning of my own [pre-chorus] Min knows, she will not parade me Elayne and Aviendha know it too I do not owe the world a bow I owe this body one true morning [chorus] I want to live, I want to live I want a road without a title I want to live, I want to live I want a morning I can waste I want to live, I want to live I want a road without a title I want to live, I want to live I want a morning I can waste [post-chorus] I take the reins toward morning The road has room for one more man I want to live, I want to live I want the pipe, I want the dust [verse] Nobody needs the Dragon on this road Loved ones can keep the secret close I will not stage a grand returning I will not wake the dead with news If I see Tam, I'll find the words I can ride past without a banner I want an inn, a bed, some quiet I want to waste a day on purpose [pre-chorus] Min knows, she will not parade me Elayne and Aviendha know it too I do not owe the world a bow I owe this body one true morning [chorus] I want to live, I want to live I want a road without a title I want to live, I want to live I want a morning I can waste I want to live, I want to live I want a road without a title I want to live, I want to live I want a morning I can waste [post-chorus] I take the reins toward morning The road has room for one more man I want to live, I want to live I want the pipe, I want the dust [bridge] I spent so long on what must be done I almost forgot I wanted air I am so hungry I could laugh I want bread, I want a stupid joke I want a day that I can choose I want to live, I want no thanks If this face is not the old one Then let it smile without a crowd [chorus] I want to live, I want to live I want a road without a title I want to live, I want to live I want a morning I can waste I want to live, I want to live I want a road without a title I want to live, I want to live I want a morning I can waste [outro] I want to live, I want to live The road is ordinary and wide I want to live, I want to live I'm allowed this, I'm going

[intro] Don't shut that door on me I heard you talking in the yard You think I'll stay and keep the inn I'm going, you can't leave me here [verse] You count the horses in the dark Mat laughs like this is already done Perrin looks down and will not speak Rand, you will not meet my eyes I pin my hair back off my face I hide my pack behind the door Mother still washes last night's cups She has not heard you say my name [pre-chorus] You talk like I am still a child You plan to leave me here behind I learned this house, I know each room I want to see beyond these walls [chorus] I'm going, you can't leave me here I packed my bag before you asked I'm going, you can't leave me here I know this road as well as you I'm going, you can't leave me here I packed my bag before you asked I'm going, you can't leave me here I know this road as well as you [post-chorus] Father, put the barrel book away I'm not staying for the dawn If you will ride, then wait for me I'm going, you can't leave me here [verse] You fold a map across your knee You name the towns I have not seen Dust is already on your boots I want that dust on my own shoes Nynaeve will scold when she finds out Let her, I already chose the gate I kiss my mother's wrist and go I pick up what I can carry [pre-chorus] You talk like I am still a child You plan to leave me here behind I learned this house, I know each room I want to see beyond these walls [chorus] I'm going, you can't leave me here I packed my bag before you asked I'm going, you can't leave me here I know this road as well as you I'm going, you can't leave me here I packed my bag before you asked I'm going, you can't leave me here I know this road as well as you [post-chorus] Father, put the barrel book away I'm not staying for the dawn If you will ride, then wait for me I'm going, you can't leave me here [bridge] I am afraid the inn will fit me That I will pour and smile and stay That you'll come back full of names And I'll still be wiping tables I want to be more than your girl I want the learning you were given If that's selfish, I don't care I'm going, you can't leave me here [chorus] I'm going, you can't leave me here I packed my bag before you asked I'm going, you can't leave me here I know this road as well as you I'm going, you can't leave me here I packed my bag before you asked I'm going, you can't leave me here I know this road as well as you [outro] Don't you start the horses without me I have my bag and my name Wait in the yard until I come I'm going, you can't leave me here

[intro] The collar sits against my throat You turn your wrist. I go still I bite my tongue till it bleeds Take it off, take it off my neck [verse] You snap the leash and my knees drop The floor is grit against my palms You tell me when to lift my head I lift it later than you like You call me something small and sweet I won't wear that in my mouth The bracelet flashes when you move I watch it so I know the pain [pre-chorus] I won't thank you for the water I won't sleep because you say so I know the door. I know the lock I still belong to my name [chorus] Take it off, take it off my neck Renna, I feel you in my nerves Take it off, take it off my neck Say Egwene. You will say it Take it off, take it off my neck Renna, I feel you in my nerves Take it off, take it off my neck Say Egwene. You will say it [post-chorus] I lie awake and cannot blink That thanks comes back as shame You hold the leash like I am tame Take it off, take it off my neck [verse] You turn your wrist to make me stand My stomach folds. I will not cry You smile like that means you have won I file the smile away for later At night I practice saying Egwene Until the word feels like a blade If I forget, you have won I say it under every order [pre-chorus] I won't thank you for the water I won't sleep because you say so I know the door. I know the lock I still belong to my name [chorus] Take it off, take it off my neck Renna, I feel you in my nerves Take it off, take it off my neck Say Egwene. You will say it Take it off, take it off my neck Renna, I feel you in my nerves Take it off, take it off my neck Say Egwene. You will say it [post-chorus] I lie awake and cannot blink That thanks comes back as shame You hold the leash like I am tame Take it off, take it off my neck [bridge] I reached for you before I thought When someone moved outside the door My body learned you faster than I That is the part I cannot stand I hate how well my nerves obey I hate the thanks still in my throat I'll get out. I keep that fact Take it off, take it off my neck [chorus] Take it off, take it off my neck Renna, I feel you in my nerves Take it off, take it off my neck Say Egwene. You will say it Take it off, take it off my neck Renna, I feel you in my nerves Take it off, take it off my neck Say Egwene. You will say it [outro] When this comes off I won't thank you I walk out on my own feet Renna, remember I asked you Take it off, take it off my neck

[intro] Mesaana, you brought that collar here You wait to see me drop my eyes I keep my coat. I keep my name You don't get to name me here [verse] I put a door where none had been The handle holds because I will it You push. The windows try to shake I hold the glass inside the frame You wear a face that is not yours I don't need to know which sister I need you gone from this hall I need my voice in this air [pre-chorus] You think the a'dam still can reach You think a dream will make me kneel I learned this place the hard way It answers me. It ignores you [chorus] You don't get to name me here This hall holds because I say so You don't get to name me here Say damane and watch it fail You don't get to name me here This hall holds because I say so You don't get to name me here Say damane and watch it fail [post-chorus] The wall stays solid in my palm The stair stays where I left it You don't own the dark I walk You don't get to name me here [verse] You close that metal on my throat The cold weight tries to come back I remember Renna. I refuse her This is my ground. You are the guest I think of who I am without you The girl who would not stay at home I don't borrow that from anyone I hold until your will gives out [pre-chorus] You think the a'dam still can reach You think a dream will make me kneel I learned this place the hard way It answers me. It ignores you [chorus] You don't get to name me here This hall holds because I say so You don't get to name me here Say damane and watch it fail You don't get to name me here This hall holds because I say so You don't get to name me here Say damane and watch it fail [post-chorus] The wall stays solid in my palm The stair stays where I left it You don't own the dark I walk You don't get to name me here [bridge] I was afraid you knew me better The collar felt like my true name My walking felt like a costume You could peel it with one word That is a lie I will not keep I am the one who names this place Mesaana, you will break before I do You don't get to name me here [chorus] You don't get to name me here This hall holds because I say so You don't get to name me here Say damane and watch it fail You don't get to name me here This hall holds because I say so You don't get to name me here Say damane and watch it fail [outro] Morning finds me on the stone My throat is bare in morning light The dream still answers when I call You don't get to name me here

[intro] Sheriam, take your list and go I did not ask you for a speech The Hall is full. The stole is mine You put me here, now hear me speak [verse] You wrote the words that raised me up You stood and spoke the raising words Then you planned my mornings for me You told the clerk what I would sign Siuan slides the law book toward me We read until the wick runs low I am grateful. Leave the rest When footsteps come, I stay seated [pre-chorus] Romanda, do not test my silence Lelaine, put your papers down now You wanted a girl you could manage You have the Seat. Now hear it speak [chorus] You put me here, now hear me speak I wear the stole you chose to give You put me here, now hear me speak Bring your question to this Seat You put me here, now hear me speak I wear the stole you chose to give You put me here, now hear me speak Bring your question to this Seat [post-chorus] Do not tell me what I should say I let you finish. Then I stop This war is not your game You put me here, now hear me speak [verse] You keep a siege that never starts I ask the clerk to read it loud The power granted in a war Is written where you hoped I'd miss I give you time to understand Then I ask which road we take You glance at one another first Look at me. I asked a question [pre-chorus] Romanda, do not test my silence Lelaine, put your papers down now You wanted a girl you could manage You have the Seat. Now hear it speak [chorus] You put me here, now hear me speak I wear the stole you chose to give You put me here, now hear me speak Bring your question to this Seat You put me here, now hear me speak I wear the stole you chose to give You put me here, now hear me speak Bring your question to this Seat [post-chorus] Do not tell me what I should say I let you finish. Then I stop This war is not your game You put me here, now hear me speak [bridge] I wanted this more than I admitted The stole felt right on the first night That hunger is not your business It does not make me your invention I use the war you gave me I will not ask you how to sit If you regret this raising, speak You put me here, now hear me speak [chorus] You put me here, now hear me speak I wear the stole you chose to give You put me here, now hear me speak Bring your question to this Seat You put me here, now hear me speak I wear the stole you chose to give You put me here, now hear me speak Bring your question to this Seat [outro] Leave the stole where you set it The Hall can stare. The stole stays I am done being spoken for You put me here, now hear me speak

[intro] Silviana, put the cup in reach I taste the root before the sweet My hands shake. I drink it anyway Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea [verse] Root sits thick across my tongue I set the empty cup down straight The stripes still burn beneath my dress I find the chair and sit with care You send me down to wash the steps The stone is cold against my knees I wash them well. I wash them twice You wanted mess. I give you none [pre-chorus] Beat me for the walk I won't hurry Call me novice till the bell I am still the woman you raised The tea does not unmake that [chorus] Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea I know the bitter under it Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea Then I stand and do the work Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea I know the bitter under it Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea Then I stand and do the work [post-chorus] My fingers wrap the cup with care I won't let you watch me shake Honey does not hide the root Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea [verse] A sister leans in at the door She wants the map I will not give I tell her where the Hall went wrong She leaves the crumbs. She takes the truth At night the Source is still out of reach I practice standing by the bed Silviana counts. I let her count Tomorrow I will climb again [pre-chorus] Beat me for the walk I won't hurry Call me novice till the bell I am still the woman you raised The tea does not unmake that [chorus] Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea I know the bitter under it Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea Then I stand and do the work Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea I know the bitter under it Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea Then I stand and do the work [post-chorus] My fingers wrap the cup with care I won't let you watch me shake Honey does not hide the root Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea [bridge] I am slower than I used to be That is the truth I will not hide The tea works, I can barely channel I drink because refusing is a show Patience is the thing you cannot beat You need me broken. I go quiet Quiet still belongs to me Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea [chorus] Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea I know the bitter under it Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea Then I stand and do the work Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea I know the bitter under it Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea Then I stand and do the work [outro] Leave the cup. I have finished it My mouth is sweet, my back still burns I will be on the steps at dawn Pour the honey, I'll drink the tea

[intro] The roof comes down across the court A girl is bleeding on the stair I haul her in by the bloody wrist Bring them in, they're all my daughters [verse] The novices are packed below One girl holds a sleeve not hers I show them how to link with me Their fear is loud. I make it work Stone dust is in my mouth and hair I call the names I still can see If you can stand, you come to me If you cannot, we carry you [pre-chorus] Do not wait for a sister's leave I am the Seat. I have you now Keep the circle close and breathing Give me whatever you can hold [chorus] Bring them in, they're all my daughters Novice, sister, even those who ran Bring them in, they're all my daughters I will not sort them in this fire Bring them in, they're all my daughters Novice, sister, even those who ran Bring them in, they're all my daughters I will not sort them in this fire [post-chorus] The rod is heavy in my hands White light climbs the broken stair I turn it on the wings above Bring them in, they're all my daughters [verse] At dawn the windows have no glass We count the rooms. We count the missing I write the taken names in order I do not skip the ones who mocked me The Hall comes gathering by the door Their colors wait for me to choose I take the work into my hands This Tower is one house tonight [pre-chorus] Do not wait for a sister's leave I am the Seat. I have you now Keep the circle close and breathing Give me whatever you can hold [chorus] Bring them in, they're all my daughters Novice, sister, even those who ran Bring them in, they're all my daughters I will not sort them in this fire Bring them in, they're all my daughters Novice, sister, even those who ran Bring them in, they're all my daughters I will not sort them in this fire [post-chorus] The rod is heavy in my hands White light climbs the broken stair I turn it on the wings above Bring them in, they're all my daughters [bridge] I wanted them to feel the shame The way they dressed me as a child That hunger has no use in ruin I put it down. I keep the living If I am Amyrlin, this is why The stole is cloth. These women breathe Come in. I will not make you beg Bring them in, they're all my daughters [chorus] Bring them in, they're all my daughters Novice, sister, even those who ran Bring them in, they're all my daughters I will not sort them in this fire Bring them in, they're all my daughters Novice, sister, even those who ran Bring them in, they're all my daughters I will not sort them in this fire [outro] Open the doors that still can open Call every name until someone answers If she can walk, she is enough Bring them in, they're all my daughters

[intro] You hid those rings inside your fist You shut your hand against my looking I asked what kept you from sleep You left me, Gawyn, you left me here [verse] Your scabbard knocks against the jamb You hitch it higher on your hip I wrote to the captains in the yard You ride before I sand the page I set your cup and wait The chair across from me stays cold I thought a husband meant a morning I thought the other chair would stay [pre-chorus] Why did you put those rings on? I am your wife. Come back inside You go out, you come back in You do not get to vanish [chorus] You left me, Gawyn, you left me here The bond tore open in the noise You left me, Gawyn, you left me here I wanted time to be your wife You left me, Gawyn, you left me here The bond tore open in the noise You left me, Gawyn, you left me here I wanted time to be your wife [post-chorus] I reach for you. Nothing answers I lose the order on my tongue Silviana, say the words once more You left me, Gawyn, you left me here [verse] You rode to Demandred without me You hid the price those rings would take I felt you dying through the bond You spent our life to make a charge I cannot hold what you undid I cannot find you in the bond No door against the rain now I reach beside me. You are gone [pre-chorus] Why did you put those rings on? I am your wife. Come back inside You go out, you come back in You do not get to vanish [chorus] You left me, Gawyn, you left me here The bond tore open in the noise You left me, Gawyn, you left me here I wanted time to be your wife You left me, Gawyn, you left me here The bond tore open in the noise You left me, Gawyn, you left me here I wanted time to be your wife [post-chorus] I reach for you. Nothing answers I lose the order on my tongue Silviana, say the words once more You left me, Gawyn, you left me here [bridge] I am angry that you were brave I needed you stupid and alive I needed breakfast and your coat I needed fights about the door I loved the man who stayed the night The legend took you out the door Come back. I know you cannot come You left me, Gawyn, you left me here [chorus] You left me, Gawyn, you left me here The bond tore open in the noise You left me, Gawyn, you left me here I wanted time to be your wife You left me, Gawyn, you left me here The bond tore open in the noise You left me, Gawyn, you left me here I wanted time to be your wife [outro] Give me one minute with this quiet Then send the stretchers where I stand I still have work. You should have stayed You left me, Gawyn, you left me here

[intro] The stone unravels under our boots A sister's hand goes out of time I reach and close on empty air You burn it down, I'll mend it [verse] A line of fire unthreads the day The place she stood is wrong and gone I draw until my fingers shake The crystal climbing up my palm I see the tear and make it stay White crossing white across the wound I hear Taim shouting through the smoke I turn into the glare he makes [pre-chorus] Push the circle down the slope Take anyone still on their feet Don't watch me like I am leaving Watch the weave and keep it clear [chorus] You burn it down, I'll mend it Taim, you do not get this world You burn it down, I'll mend it I hold the shape against your fire You burn it down, I'll mend it Taim, you do not get this world You burn it down, I'll mend it I hold the shape against your fire [post-chorus] White fills the ruts the fire opened The tearing edges meet and hold I will not let the day come loose You burn it down, I'll mend it [verse] You throw that fire to unmake names To steal the hour they already lived I catch the edge and turn it solid Crystal where the world would fall It costs me. I can feel the cost Light is eating through my sight Move the wounded. Clear the line I still have enough to finish you [pre-chorus] Push the circle down the slope Take anyone still on their feet Don't watch me like I am leaving Watch the weave and keep it clear [chorus] You burn it down, I'll mend it Taim, you do not get this world You burn it down, I'll mend it I hold the shape against your fire You burn it down, I'll mend it Taim, you do not get this world You burn it down, I'll mend it I hold the shape against your fire [post-chorus] White fills the ruts the fire opened The tearing edges meet and hold I will not let the day come loose You burn it down, I'll mend it [bridge] I am afraid I cannot hold it That I will spend myself and fail That all of this will still come undone After my hands have gone empty I will not step back from this This is the work I chose to keep I stay inside the weave I made You burn it down, I'll mend it [chorus] You burn it down, I'll mend it Taim, you do not get this world You burn it down, I'll mend it I hold the shape against your fire You burn it down, I'll mend it Taim, you do not get this world You burn it down, I'll mend it I hold the shape against your fire [outro] The current takes what I have left I let it through. I hold the tear Taim, you will not have this ending You burn it down, I'll mend it

[intro] The shop is dark and still mine Last night's ash still holds a glow I came here before anyone knocks Let me make one thing that stays [verse] I pump the bellows till leather draws Straw color under the first coals Nobody is walking on the green This hour still belongs to my hands I set a hinge blank on the horn I strike slow so the curve stays true These hands are large and they scare me The hammer tells them where to stop [pre-chorus] If I hurry I will spoil the fit The village will start talking soon I only want this piece to hold I only want this morning quiet [chorus] Let me make one thing that stays Give me an hour with this iron Let me make one thing that stays I need the morning to stay slow Let me make one thing that stays Give me an hour with this iron Let me make one thing that stays I need the morning to stay slow [post-chorus] Hold it, turn it, let it cool A hinge is enough for now Let me make one thing that stays Before the road takes the rest [verse] A wagon creaks on packed dirt Master Luhhan will open the shutters I sweep scale off the anvil face I put my palm on cold iron It only asks if the blow was true I am afraid of what these hands do When the work is not a hinge When the morning is not this quiet [pre-chorus] If I hurry I will spoil the fit The village will start talking soon I only want this piece to hold I only want this morning quiet [chorus] Let me make one thing that stays Give me an hour with this iron Let me make one thing that stays I need the morning to stay slow Let me make one thing that stays Give me an hour with this iron Let me make one thing that stays I need the morning to stay slow [post-chorus] Hold it, turn it, let it cool A hinge is enough for now Let me make one thing that stays Before the road takes the rest [bridge] I'm always afraid I'll hit too hard I see how easily wood can split I never asked for all this strength The hammer makes it small enough I fear a worse morning is coming Some day I may leave this shop I beg the iron to stay ordinary I beg myself to stay kind [chorus] Let me make one thing that stays Give me an hour with this iron Let me make one thing that stays I need the morning to stay slow Let me make one thing that stays Give me an hour with this iron Let me make one thing that stays I need the morning to stay slow [outro] Bellows first, then the slow strike The village still has not woken Let me make one thing that stays Then I will go if I have to

[intro] Look at me, I'm still your friend You used to meet my eyes in town Now you look at the ground first I smell the fear on your coat [verse] I woke and the light had gone wrong Yellow held when I turned my head I walked around the mill pond twice I hoped the water would lie to me Egwene flinched from a fire I banked I smelled it before she could speak I pulled my hood down in three towns The gold still shows when I turn [pre-chorus] Wolves send a place I could belong They never use the name I was given I answer them and I hate it Then I wait for the forge hour [chorus] Look at me, I'm still your friend I have the same hands, the same name Look at me, I'm still your friend Don't step back when I come close Look at me, I'm still your friend I have the same hands, the same name Look at me, I'm still your friend Don't step back when I come close [post-chorus] Keep looking. I am still here Say my name the way you used to Look at me, I'm still your friend I can hear your heart speed up [verse] Elyas told me to stop fighting this I fought it through each waking day Whitecloaks have their reasons on the road The hood fails me when I turn The pack calls me Young Bull at night I answer from the other side Then I take a shoe and set the nails To prove these hands still know the work [pre-chorus] Wolves send a place I could belong They never use the name I was given I answer them and I hate it Then I wait for the forge hour [chorus] Look at me, I'm still your friend I have the same hands, the same name Look at me, I'm still your friend Don't step back when I come close Look at me, I'm still your friend I have the same hands, the same name Look at me, I'm still your friend Don't step back when I come close [post-chorus] Keep looking. I am still here Say my name the way you used to Look at me, I'm still your friend I can hear your heart speed up [bridge] Noam sits in a cage in Jarra He used to be a man, they said I made myself stay till I understood That is the door I am afraid of I still get to the forge before light I still know my name in the dark Please don't step back when I come close Please don't let me go to them [chorus] Look at me, I'm still your friend I have the same hands, the same name Look at me, I'm still your friend Don't step back when I come close Look at me, I'm still your friend I have the same hands, the same name Look at me, I'm still your friend Don't step back when I come close [outro] Put the hood down. Look anyway I have not left you yet Look at me, I'm still your friend Say it back if you can

[intro] The grass is wet and you are waiting Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing Rain ticks on the stone beside us I am slow and you know that [verse] You came while I was still asleep You showed a cliff and no ground I crouched and measured where to land You leapt before I found the nerve Hunting is talking all night long A wolf does not lie about himself You showed the meadow where they run I did not believe till I ran [pre-chorus] Young Bull, that is the name you send I hate it and I still come The dream ground shifts under my feet I need you to show the next step [chorus] Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I am slow and the ground is wrong Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I will leap if you wait for me Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I am slow and the ground is wrong Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I will leap if you wait for me [post-chorus] Come back through the wet grass once I called you and nothing answered Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I am not ready to go alone [verse] Slayer stood and drew his bow You went between us first, Hopper The arrow struck you, then my leg I could not pull the pain from you A wolf killed in the dream stays gone You knew the cost and still you jumped Some nights I search our old meadow I go looking with no hope left [pre-chorus] Young Bull, that is the name you send I hate it and I still come The dream ground shifts under my feet I need you to show the next step [chorus] Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I am slow and the ground is wrong Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I will leap if you wait for me Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I am slow and the ground is wrong Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I will leap if you wait for me [post-chorus] Come back through the wet grass once I called you and nothing answered Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I am not ready to go alone [bridge] You are not coming back through the trees The lesson is I have to leap I wanted you to stay and teach I wanted the pack to feel full Hopper's gap is still in the line The young ones do not know the time I keep looking because I cannot stop That is the shame I will not hide [chorus] Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I am slow and the ground is wrong Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I will leap if you wait for me Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I am slow and the ground is wrong Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I will leap if you wait for me [outro] Leap, you said, and I was late The meadow is empty where you ran Stay, Hopper, teach me one more thing I will try the jump you showed me

[intro] I don't want to like the axe It hangs where I can see it I walk past it to the bench My hammer is the one I made [verse] A heavy head, a well-worn handle Ash handle fitted to my palm The axe they gave me fits too well Heat and quench I understand well I hang it in the tree some nights I tell myself I will not fetch it Then I wake and it is back Closer to my hand than I meant [pre-chorus] I add the dead up on my fingers I lose the count halfway through Then I get up and go to work The fright is how easy it felt [chorus] I don't want to like the axe It sits too easy in my grip I don't want to like the axe The hammer asks more of my hands I don't want to like the axe It sits too easy in my grip I don't want to like the axe The hammer asks more of my hands [post-chorus] Put it down. Pick up the hammer. A tool I made should cost me I don't want to like the axe I am afraid of how it sings [verse] I cut a captive to make him talk I watched my hands and felt no pause I meant to get my wife back home I almost let that answer everything I threw the axe into a tree And made myself walk off without it The handle fit me far too well I would not let it choose my hands [pre-chorus] I add the dead up on my fingers I lose the count halfway through Then I get up and go to work The fright is how easy it felt [chorus] I don't want to like the axe It sits too easy in my grip I don't want to like the axe The hammer asks more of my hands I don't want to like the axe It sits too easy in my grip I don't want to like the axe The hammer asks more of my hands [post-chorus] Put it down. Pick up the hammer. A tool I made should cost me I don't want to like the axe I am afraid of how it sings [bridge] The truth is I liked the swing When I was angry it felt clean That is why I cannot keep it That is why the hammer has to win Choosing this still means I will fight It means I pay for every blow I will shoe and I will stand a wall I will not love the cutting edge [chorus] I don't want to like the axe It sits too easy in my grip I don't want to like the axe The hammer asks more of my hands I don't want to like the axe It sits too easy in my grip I don't want to like the axe The hammer asks more of my hands [outro] I test the balance across my palm I set my hand around the haft I don't want to like the axe So I pick the hammer up

[intro] Your gloves are still beside the fire You left the door a little wide Come home, Faile, come home to me I keep looking up from the work [verse] You used to kick the door with your heel You talked while I tried to hear the iron You said the price was too low again You moved my tongs and I let you You argued till the coals went dark I liked the noise more than I said Now the bellows are the only voice I keep waiting for you to cut in [pre-chorus] I poured a second cup at dusk It sat and lost its heat beside mine I cannot work this quiet, Faile Come back and pick the fight up [chorus] Come home, Faile, come home to me The second cup went cold on the bench Come home, Faile, come home to me This room is too quiet without you Come home, Faile, come home to me The second cup went cold on the bench Come home, Faile, come home to me This room is too quiet without you [post-chorus] Say my name the sharp way you do Interrupt the strike, I don't mind it Come home, Faile, come home to me I need your voice in this shop tonight [verse] I used to fear my hands on you I knew how to turn a gentle blow But thought you might be hurt by me You took my arm and settled close You named yourself a falcon, said it flat You sat beside me because you chose I lie awake. The fire goes down. I say my wife in front of any lord [pre-chorus] I poured a second cup at dusk It sat and lost its heat beside mine I cannot work this quiet, Faile Come back and pick the fight up [chorus] Come home, Faile, come home to me The second cup went cold on the bench Come home, Faile, come home to me This room is too quiet without you Come home, Faile, come home to me The second cup went cold on the bench Come home, Faile, come home to me This room is too quiet without you [post-chorus] Say my name the sharp way you do Interrupt the strike, I don't mind it Come home, Faile, come home to me I need your voice in this shop tonight [bridge] I need you more than the work does I wait for the door like a boy I want the argument more than peace I want your gloves thrown on my bench If you stay gone this shop will rust I will keep the second cup anyway Come home and tell me I am wrong Come home and raise the price again [chorus] Come home, Faile, come home to me The second cup went cold on the bench Come home, Faile, come home to me This room is too quiet without you Come home, Faile, come home to me The second cup went cold on the bench Come home, Faile, come home to me This room is too quiet without you [outro] The coals are down to a dull red I left the latch up for you Come home, Faile, come home to me I am done pretending I can wait

[intro] Open the gates, my wife is in there They took you behind Malden's gates I wasn't there to stop them I put my face in the dirt you left [verse] Your scent went faint on the frozen ruts I cut a road the wagons could take I signed Seanchan terms with my jaw shut I counted men I may not bring home I sent the forkroot for their wells I held the ridge, I wanted the gate You are still inside those walls I spend other lives to reach you [pre-chorus] I know what I did on that road I would do the ugly parts again Tell the guards to lift the bar I did not come this far to wait [chorus] Open the gates, my wife is in there I will not turn back from this Open the gates, my wife is in there I signed worse things to get close Open the gates, my wife is in there I will not turn back from this Open the gates, my wife is in there I signed worse things to get close [post-chorus] Hold the line or the whole thing breaks I kept this line for one reason Open the gates, my wife is in there I smell you on the wet wind [verse] I found you past the smoke and fighting Your dress was torn, your face was drawn You'd found a way beyond your captors I could not trust my eyes at first I didn't ask who helped you reach me You took my hand and let it pass I held you while the battle ended I cannot wash the bargain off [pre-chorus] I know what I did on that road I would do the ugly parts again Tell the guards to lift the bar I did not come this far to wait [chorus] Open the gates, my wife is in there I will not turn back from this Open the gates, my wife is in there I signed worse things to get close Open the gates, my wife is in there I will not turn back from this Open the gates, my wife is in there I signed worse things to get close [post-chorus] Hold the line or the whole thing breaks I kept this line for one reason Open the gates, my wife is in there I smell you on the wet wind [bridge] I risked my men to fetch my wife That is the part I will not pretty I called it duty. It was you. If the walls had held I would stay I would have spent the last of them I am not proud of this road I would still knock the gates apart You are breathing. That is enough. [chorus] Open the gates, my wife is in there I will not turn back from this Open the gates, my wife is in there I signed worse things to get close Open the gates, my wife is in there I will not turn back from this Open the gates, my wife is in there I signed worse things to get close [outro] The road behind us is ruin You are breathing. That is the point. Open the gates, my wife is in there I still say it in my sleep

[intro] The ground is hard. The air is thin. Hopper's gap is still in the line. I came for you through this place Run, Slayer, I know where you are [verse] You walked my village with a bow You put an arrow where Hopper leapt You mean to take Rand in the dream I learned to step the way you go Two worlds thin as a hammer face I plant a foot and the ground holds I know this place with my feet now I can smell you through the trees [pre-chorus] A dream-killed wolf does not come home You taught me that with Hopper's blood I keep the passage clear behind me I will not miss the next shot [chorus] Run, Slayer, I know where you are I can follow the way you step Run, Slayer, I know where you are I own the turn you used to take Run, Slayer, I know where you are I can follow the way you step Run, Slayer, I know where you are I own the turn you used to take [post-chorus] I close the distance through the trees I hated being slow. I am not now. Run, Slayer, I know where you are There is no hole left for you [verse] You led me back to Emond's Field I chased you through my own streets You thought these roads would make me falter I followed where you tried to hide Rand's scent is a man I must keep Yours is oil and old blood and bow I close the gap you used to own You already missed me once [pre-chorus] A dream-killed wolf does not come home You taught me that with Hopper's blood I keep the passage clear behind me I will not miss the next shot [chorus] Run, Slayer, I know where you are I can follow the way you step Run, Slayer, I know where you are I own the turn you used to take Run, Slayer, I know where you are I can follow the way you step Run, Slayer, I know where you are I own the turn you used to take [post-chorus] I close the distance through the trees I hated being slow. I am not now. Run, Slayer, I know where you are There is no hole left for you [bridge] I wanted Hopper here for this That is the grief I run on I am sure of my feet tonight I may not like what I catch If I catch you I will finish it If I hesitate you will take Rand I came to end this hunt, Slayer Stop running. Let me see you. [chorus] Run, Slayer, I know where you are I can follow the way you step Run, Slayer, I know where you are I own the turn you used to take Run, Slayer, I know where you are I can follow the way you step Run, Slayer, I know where you are I own the turn you used to take [outro] The pack sends warmth and leaves me to it I shoe horses when this is done Run, Slayer, I know where you are Come out. The light is nearly here.

[intro] Neald holds the heat above the coal Strike again, I have to make it hold The others lend what they can I have the hammer and the work [verse] I strike until the iron takes shape The head is warm against my leg Sweat runs into my eyes. I keep on. The grain has to run true or it splits I asked for help to keep the heat I do the striking. That is my part. If this fails, the wall fails with it If this fails, I fail the living [pre-chorus] I chose a tool that can defend them I am afraid the head will crack I am afraid I will miss the temper So I lift it and I hit again [chorus] Strike again, I have to make it hold I watch the color in the steel Strike again, I have to make it hold This has to last for living people Strike again, I have to make it hold I watch the color in the steel Strike again, I have to make it hold This has to last for living people [post-chorus] The hammer jar runs through my shoulder I plant my feet and I stay put Strike again, I have to make it hold This is work I can still do [verse] The scale flakes off in bright sheets I brush it and take the next blow Sweat hits the horn and hisses off I taste salt and keep the rhythm This hammer is for a wall, a door A thing a man holds in a street Leave them nothing that will split I keep on till the note rings true [pre-chorus] I chose a tool that can defend them I am afraid the head will crack I am afraid I will miss the temper So I lift it and I hit again [chorus] Strike again, I have to make it hold I watch the color in the steel Strike again, I have to make it hold This has to last for living people Strike again, I have to make it hold I watch the color in the steel Strike again, I have to make it hold This has to last for living people [post-chorus] The hammer jar runs through my shoulder I plant my feet and I stay put Strike again, I have to make it hold This is work I can still do [bridge] I need this to be mine when it cools They hold the heat. I make the shape. If I fail, I have no other proof I am a blacksmith. Let that stay true. People are counting on this head I am afraid it will not take So I strike like that morning in my shop When a hinge was enough to ask [chorus] Strike again, I have to make it hold I watch the color in the steel Strike again, I have to make it hold This has to last for living people Strike again, I have to make it hold I watch the color in the steel Strike again, I have to make it hold This has to last for living people [outro] The head rings true against the horn I quench it and I wait Strike again, I have to make it hold It holds. I can live with this.

[intro] The barn door sticks after rain Ma is calling from the stoop I pocket apples for the ditch I'll be back before they miss me [verse] Da set me stacking the hay bales I stacked them high and slipped behind The cart track shines from last night's rain I leave my boots on the fence rail Perrin shouts something I don't catch Rand waits like he already knows We cut across Luhhan's side yard Cold mud climbs around my ankles [pre-chorus] Ma will count the missing apples She hears the lie before I speak I laugh it off and keep walking This road is longer than I promised [chorus] I'll be back before they miss me Don't pack a bag, it's just one day I'll be back before they miss me Tell Ma the ditch work ran long I'll be back before they miss me Don't pack a bag, it's just one day I'll be back before they miss me Tell Ma the ditch work ran long [post-chorus] Two Rivers mud on both my knees I scrape it, then I let it dry The village bell still reaches here I could turn around. I won't. [verse] We throw dice behind the mill wheel A stranger's cloak hangs in the hedge I call it just a farmer's coat My mouth stays dry until our gate Ma left a plate beside the stove I eat standing with the door cracked She packed advice I didn't want I promised twice I'd write her soon [pre-chorus] Ma will count the missing apples She hears the lie before I speak I laugh it off and keep walking This road is longer than I promised [chorus] I'll be back before they miss me Don't pack a bag, it's just one day I'll be back before they miss me Tell Ma the ditch work ran long I'll be back before they miss me Don't pack a bag, it's just one day I'll be back before they miss me Tell Ma the ditch work ran long [post-chorus] Two Rivers mud on both my knees I scrape it, then I let it dry The village bell still reaches here I could turn around. I won't. [bridge] I said a day. I packed for weeks. The horse already knows the road I wanted out of stacking hay I didn't want the mountain wind She made me swear I'd send for her I laughed and kissed her on the cheek I'm not coming back at dusk I can't say that to her face [chorus] I'll be back before they miss me Don't pack a bag, it's just one day I'll be back before they miss me Tell Ma the ditch work ran long I'll be back before they miss me Don't pack a bag, it's just one day I'll be back before they miss me Tell Ma the ditch work ran long [outro] I'll be back before they miss me The mud dries hard along the cuff I'll be back before they miss me Ma, I meant it when I left

[intro] The ruby warms against my ribs I hide the hilt inside my coat You keep looking at my pocket It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine [verse] I took it from that buried treasure Rand said to leave that place at once I laughed and slipped it out of sight The stone sits warm against my shirt I count the coins, then count the doors Thom watches like he knows the smell Why is everyone so quiet now I only want what's owed to me [pre-chorus] Rand, take your hand off my shoulder I can feel you thinking thief The room is leaning toward my coat I hear you breathing at my back [chorus] It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine Put it back where I can see It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine I sleep if no one comes near It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine Put it back where I can see It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine I sleep if no one comes near [post-chorus] The blanket smells of someone else I turn my pockets out again If you take it I will know Leave the dagger by my hand [verse] I shut the door and check the latch A footstep pauses in the hall I know I put it in my sleeve The sleeve is empty when I look Rand's face changes when I smile I tell him not to fuss so much My mouth is dry, my hands are fast I cannot make them let it go [pre-chorus] Rand, take your hand off my shoulder I can feel you thinking thief The room is leaning toward my coat I hear you breathing at my back [chorus] It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine Put it back where I can see It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine I sleep if no one comes near It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine Put it back where I can see It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine I sleep if no one comes near [post-chorus] The blanket smells of someone else I turn my pockets out again If you take it I will know Leave the dagger by my hand [bridge] Rand, stay in the room a minute I hear it talking in the dark I know this isn't how I talk Don't leave me with it overnight If you can take it, take it now I won't forgive you if you do I'm asking, and I hate the asking Get it off me while I sleep [chorus] It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine Put it back where I can see It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine I sleep if no one comes near It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine Put it back where I can see It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine I sleep if no one comes near [outro] It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine Rand, don't you dare come close It's mine, don't touch it, it's mine Stay anyway. I'm losing this fight.

[intro] They've got me flat upon the wood I cannot count the faces here Somebody tell them I can swear Take it out, leave the rest of me [verse] A woman tells me lie there still I'd like to see her try that trick The crystal throws a colder light It finds the hilt I will not name I make a joke about the crowd Nobody laughs the way they should My hands are shaking on the grain I want it gone and I am scared [pre-chorus] If you cut too deep, leave Mat I came here with a name I like Don't take the luck, don't take the jokes Just pull the thing that wants my hand [chorus] Take it out, leave the rest of me I need enough to stand back up Take it out, leave the rest of me Call me Mat when I come back Take it out, leave the rest of me I need enough to stand back up Take it out, leave the rest of me Call me Mat when I come back [post-chorus] I shout in words I never learned The table falls a mile below me Then every bit of feeling comes I wake starving and more myself [verse] I frighten half the kitchen staff They bring a loaf; I ask for two The knife sits quiet by the plate I leave it where they set it down Outside, two princes practice swords I lean upon a borrowed staff I bet them silver I can win My hands belong to me again [pre-chorus] If you cut too deep, leave Mat I came here with a name I like Don't take the luck, don't take the jokes Just pull the thing that wants my hand [chorus] Take it out, leave the rest of me I need enough to stand back up Take it out, leave the rest of me Call me Mat when I come back Take it out, leave the rest of me I need enough to stand back up Take it out, leave the rest of me Call me Mat when I come back [post-chorus] I shout in words I never learned The table falls a mile below me Then every bit of feeling comes I wake starving and more myself [bridge] I joked to keep my teeth from chattering They heard the joke and missed the fear I thought the stone had made me brave It only made me mean and small If any piece of me is missing Don't tell me till I've eaten more I want my name, my luck, my hunger Leave the rest, I'm asking you nicely [chorus] Take it out, leave the rest of me I need enough to stand back up Take it out, leave the rest of me Call me Mat when I come back Take it out, leave the rest of me I need enough to stand back up Take it out, leave the rest of me Call me Mat when I come back [outro] Take it out, leave the rest of me Another plate if you don't mind Take it out, leave the rest of me I left a little room this time

[intro] The foxes smile before I speak I came to fill my missing years They let me talk like I have time I asked for answers, not a bloody rope [verse] The snakes already gave me riddles I walked in wanting three more things Fill the gaps the dagger left me Keep their Power off my skin Get me out of here alive They listen with those shining teeth I think I'm driving a hard bargain They have already priced my neck [pre-chorus] A foxhead drops against my chest A long black spear across my knee I know the words cut in the grain I never learned them in my life [chorus] I asked for answers, not a bloody rope Show me where I signed for this hanging I asked for answers, not a bloody rope Rand, get me down, I cannot breathe I asked for answers, not a bloody rope Show me where I signed for this hanging I asked for answers, not a bloody rope Rand, get me down, I cannot breathe [post-chorus] The branch is hard behind my head My fingers will not find the knot Dead captains talking in my skull I only wanted empty places filled [verse] I hang until the world goes thin Rand hauls me coughing into air The spear is waiting on the sand The medallion burns a little cold I asked to leave them, they said done Leaving meant the tree, the drop I taste the rope in every swallow He slaps my face until I swear [pre-chorus] A foxhead drops against my chest A long black spear across my knee I know the words cut in the grain I never learned them in my life [chorus] I asked for answers, not a bloody rope Show me where I signed for this hanging I asked for answers, not a bloody rope Rand, get me down, I cannot breathe I asked for answers, not a bloody rope Show me where I signed for this hanging I asked for answers, not a bloody rope Rand, get me down, I cannot breathe [post-chorus] The branch is hard behind my head My fingers will not find the knot Dead captains talking in my skull I only wanted empty places filled [bridge] I thought I outplayed smiling foxes I thought three wishes made me clever They gave me lives I have to carry They gave me more than I can bear Rand, don't you dare start laughing I would have run if I had known I wanted memory. They sold a funeral Cut this rope and take me home [chorus] I asked for answers, not a bloody rope Show me where I signed for this hanging I asked for answers, not a bloody rope Rand, get me down, I cannot breathe I asked for answers, not a bloody rope Show me where I signed for this hanging I asked for answers, not a bloody rope Rand, get me down, I cannot breathe [outro] I asked for answers, not a bloody rope The foxes got their price in full I asked for answers, not a bloody rope I'm still coughing on the sand

[intro] Talmanes already has my horse saddled The road is clear until noon I told the Band I'd take it I said I'm leaving, why am I still here [verse] I taught them when the ale was cheap A joke to keep the night from breaking Now every pike along the ditch Keeps looking over for my hat I point them left, they actually go That was supposed to be a laugh A boy is down beside the wagons I swore I wouldn't see him there [pre-chorus] Pack the maps, I'm done with this Somebody else can call the count I have a tavern with my name Waiting if I ever reach it [chorus] I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Don't look at me like I signed on I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Get that wounded man behind the carts I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Don't look at me like I signed on I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Get that wounded man behind the carts [post-chorus] They raise a cup to Lord Cauthon I ask who hasn't found a chair Nine hundred answered at the fire I keep a plate beside the coals [verse] I start the horse, then turn it back A line is folding on the right I hear my own mouth giving orders Calm, like I have done this work Talmanes asks if he should wait I tell him wait, then hate my mouth They stay because I haven't gone I stay because they haven't either [pre-chorus] Pack the maps, I'm done with this Somebody else can call the count I have a tavern with my name Waiting if I ever reach it [chorus] I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Don't look at me like I signed on I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Get that wounded man behind the carts I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Don't look at me like I signed on I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Get that wounded man behind the carts [post-chorus] They raise a cup to Lord Cauthon I ask who hasn't found a chair Nine hundred answered at the fire I keep a plate beside the coals [bridge] I like them. There. I said it. I know their names, I know their luck I cannot watch them take a field Without a fool to pull them through I'm no bloody hero, hear me Talmanes I am a man who missed his road If I ride off they die in rows So I am here. Don't make a speech. [chorus] I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Don't look at me like I signed on I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Get that wounded man behind the carts I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Don't look at me like I signed on I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Get that wounded man behind the carts [outro] I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Keep bread warming for the last patrol I said I'm leaving, why am I still here Tell Jak he can wait on the road

[intro] She looks me over like a purchase Takes her time about the price I ought to find the door and use it It had to be you, didn't it [verse] She calls me Toy and lets me talk Then keeps the answer till I'm done I deal a winning hand on purpose She watches like the cards might lie I mend the fire; she names her terms The rabbit gets one extra turn She hasn't laughed at any joke yet I keep on trying till she does [pre-chorus] Daughter of the Nine Moons, listen I know the name they stuck on you Your empire still sits wrong on me The dice went quiet when you looked [chorus] It had to be you, didn't it I had a dozen cleaner roads out It had to be you, didn't it You make it hard to want the door It had to be you, didn't it I had a dozen cleaner roads out It had to be you, didn't it You make it hard to want the door [post-chorus] You eat as though I mentioned rain Selucia watches every word I waste I stay to see what you will do That is a problem I can't solve [verse] I called you wife three times out loud I thought I'd found the promised name You wait until the road runs out Then husband lands as plain as stone You're difficult, you're funny, you're dangerous I cannot make your judgments mine I want your mouth, I want the argument I will not bow the way they do [pre-chorus] Daughter of the Nine Moons, listen I know the name they stuck on you Your empire still sits wrong on me The dice went quiet when you looked [chorus] It had to be you, didn't it I had a dozen cleaner roads out It had to be you, didn't it You make it hard to want the door It had to be you, didn't it I had a dozen cleaner roads out It had to be you, didn't it You make it hard to want the door [post-chorus] You eat as though I mentioned rain Selucia watches every word I waste I stay to see what you will do That is a problem I can't solve [bridge] I like the way you size a room I hate the way you own a people Don't ask me to agree tonight I still want breakfast with you anyway If this is fate, it's got a mean streak I would have picked a quieter girl I'm staying, Tuon, against my talent That is the joke. You already knew. [chorus] It had to be you, didn't it I had a dozen cleaner roads out It had to be you, didn't it You make it hard to want the door It had to be you, didn't it I had a dozen cleaner roads out It had to be you, didn't it You make it hard to want the door [outro] It had to be you, didn't it Ask which road I'll take with you It had to be you, didn't it I'm still here, so pass the tea

[intro] A red floor under someone fallen I know the house; I've never been I wake and reach for my own coat Get out of my head, these aren't my dead [verse] A horse goes down beneath my knees I've never ridden in that rain A woman's face comes back at dusk I loved her under someone else's name My mother's Natti Cauthon, there, see? Da would know this coat I wear I say their names and find my boots Then check whose hand is on the spear [pre-chorus] The candle sits where I left it Morning wants a map from me I know a trap I never studied The order leaves my mouth already [chorus] Get out of my head, these aren't my dead I didn't love them, I don't owe them Get out of my head, these aren't my dead Give me back those kitchen sounds now Get out of my head, these aren't my dead I didn't love them, I don't owe them Get out of my head, these aren't my dead Give me back those kitchen sounds now [post-chorus] I lift the spear, my fingers turn Before I think to set them right I use the trick, then hate it twice This luck is wearing someone else [verse] Close my eyes and I am standing On a killing ground I cannot name I know the way our kitchen sounded I know which stair creaks in the dark A captain counts the horses dying I mourn a friend I never met Black joke first, then I lose the room Whose grief is leaking through my sleep [pre-chorus] The candle sits where I left it Morning wants a map from me I know a trap I never studied The order leaves my mouth already [chorus] Get out of my head, these aren't my dead I didn't love them, I don't owe them Get out of my head, these aren't my dead Give me back those kitchen sounds now Get out of my head, these aren't my dead I didn't love them, I don't owe them Get out of my head, these aren't my dead Give me back those kitchen sounds now [post-chorus] I lift the spear, my fingers turn Before I think to set them right I use the trick, then hate it twice This luck is wearing someone else [bridge] My name is Mat, leave me that I will not claim their wives as mine If this is memory, it was stolen Poured in to fill the holes I asked for I wanted my own life patched up They sent me funerals for strangers Rand, if I start giving old orders Shake me till I know the tent [chorus] Get out of my head, these aren't my dead I didn't love them, I don't owe them Get out of my head, these aren't my dead Give me back those kitchen sounds now Get out of my head, these aren't my dead I didn't love them, I don't owe them Get out of my head, these aren't my dead Give me back those kitchen sounds now [outro] Get out of my head, these aren't my dead The candle's mine, the morning's mine Get out of my head, these aren't my dead Somebody wants the map, I'm coming now

[intro] Thom keeps a tune against the iron The hallway isn't built for men I wish they'd sold a simpler door Take the eye, let her go [verse] They smile and name the price again I make them say the bargain twice One eye, and Moiraine walks out I look at Thom, I look at Noal My hands are sweating on the spear I came for her, I came for them Don't tell me this is being brave I can feel my stomach drop [pre-chorus] Hold the flame so I can see her Keep her where the light still reaches If I go dark, you get her out That is the deal. Repeat it, Thom. [chorus] Take the eye, let her go I will pay it, I am terrified Take the eye, let her go Don't you keep her one more hour Take the eye, let her go I will pay it, I am terrified Take the eye, let her go Don't you keep her one more hour [post-chorus] The room goes white, then half the fire Has gone out on the left side I hear her say my name at last Call for Thom to bring her here [verse] Noal plants himself and will not move He tells us we have got to go I start to argue, Thom takes hold I leave a friend I cannot save I put the spearhead to the wall A line of daylight splits the seam They sold an exit in that bargain The bloody door was here with me [pre-chorus] Hold the flame so I can see her Keep her where the light still reaches If I go dark, you get her out That is the deal. Repeat it, Thom. [chorus] Take the eye, let her go I will pay it, I am terrified Take the eye, let her go Don't you keep her one more hour Take the eye, let her go I will pay it, I am terrified Take the eye, let her go Don't you keep her one more hour [post-chorus] The room goes white, then half the fire Has gone out on the left side I hear her say my name at last Call for Thom to bring her here [bridge] I wanted a cheaper piece of me A finger, luck, a year of dice They pointed at my face and smiled I said yes because she is in there Moiraine, I am not doing this pretty I am doing this because we came If I go blind on that side forever You walk. That is the whole of it. [chorus] Take the eye, let her go I will pay it, I am terrified Take the eye, let her go Don't you keep her one more hour Take the eye, let her go I will pay it, I am terrified Take the eye, let her go Don't you keep her one more hour [outro] Take the eye, let her go Keep moving, let me count your steps Take the eye, let her go I'll look at what it cost us later

[intro] Talmanes, get that banner off the rise Don't let them see where I have moved The dice are louder than the drums Move when I tell you, stay alive [verse] Hold the left until the light fails I know that ridge, I've watched it spring I've seen that trap eat other men I will not send them there again I haven't eaten since first light A rider comes without his helm He gives the numbers, waits for more I send him through another gap [pre-chorus] Give me half a breath to think Then put the message in my hand Keep the archers where they stand Bring the horses through, then close the gap [chorus] Move when I tell you, stay alive I want you loud tonight at supper Move when I tell you, stay alive Complain to me when this is done Move when I tell you, stay alive I want you loud tonight at supper Move when I tell you, stay alive Complain to me when this is done [post-chorus] Demandred wants the Dragon, that is fine He'll have to take the man that's here Rand has his work beneath the mountain I turn the map and draw them near [verse] Dust on my mouth, I spit and joke Talmanes laughs a little too tight Don't you die to make me famous I use a life like I use coin Carefully, and I count the spending A thousand stepped across that ditch I want them counting back at dusk Every one, you hear me, every one [pre-chorus] Give me half a breath to think Then put the message in my hand Keep the archers where they stand Bring the horses through, then close the gap [chorus] Move when I tell you, stay alive I want you loud tonight at supper Move when I tell you, stay alive Complain to me when this is done Move when I tell you, stay alive I want you loud tonight at supper Move when I tell you, stay alive Complain to me when this is done [post-chorus] Demandred wants the Dragon, that is fine He'll have to take the man that's here Rand has his work beneath the mountain I turn the map and draw them near [bridge] I'm good at this and I hate that I did not ask to spend you well If you live, you can curse my name That is the only win I want No banners, no pretty conquest speech Just get me bodies that can walk I will get drunk with you after I'll curse you as I dig the ground [chorus] Move when I tell you, stay alive I want you loud tonight at supper Move when I tell you, stay alive Complain to me when this is done Move when I tell you, stay alive I want you loud tonight at supper Move when I tell you, stay alive Complain to me when this is done [outro] Move when I tell you, stay alive I'll have a drink when this is done Move when I tell you, stay alive Be there to make the joke with me

[intro] The brim is filling in the rain It's caught between two painted shields I might have ridden past it twice Give me my hat, I'm coming with you [verse] Knock the water from the brim first It fits the way it always did One thing that hasn't changed on me A man salutes; I wish he wouldn't He has a friend beneath a sheet I make some room beside the track Friends need a fool with a wide brim I grumble while I put it on [pre-chorus] That is my hat, you know it is I have had enough of staring Let me look like myself a minute Then tell me where we're riding [chorus] Give me my hat, I'm coming with you Don't you start the horses without me Give me my hat, I'm coming with you I look wrong going out all bareheaded Give me my hat, I'm coming with you Don't you start the horses without me Give me my hat, I'm coming with you I look wrong going out all bareheaded [post-chorus] Thom finds a tune outside the tents I stop and hear it to the end Someone brings a cup my way I pass it to the nearest hand [verse] Titles keep stacking on my coat The brim sits up between the noise I wear it so they see the boy Who stole apples and ran the ditch If I lose this I still have feet I tell myself that like a joke Then I check the peg twice anyway So give it here before we ride [pre-chorus] That is my hat, you know it is I have had enough of staring Let me look like myself a minute Then tell me where we're riding [chorus] Give me my hat, I'm coming with you Don't you start the horses without me Give me my hat, I'm coming with you I look wrong going out all bareheaded Give me my hat, I'm coming with you Don't you start the horses without me Give me my hat, I'm coming with you I look wrong going out all bareheaded [post-chorus] Thom finds a tune outside the tents I stop and hear it to the end Someone brings a cup my way I pass it to the nearest hand [bridge] Keep the hat. Fine. I'll still come. I only wanted something that was mine You needed me, I heard you say it I was already reaching for the reins The brim is only comfort in the rain I would walk out in the rain uncovered I just like who I am beneath it Now give it back, I'm bloody serious [chorus] Give me my hat, I'm coming with you Don't you start the horses without me Give me my hat, I'm coming with you I look wrong going out all bareheaded Give me my hat, I'm coming with you Don't you start the horses without me Give me my hat, I'm coming with you I look wrong going out all bareheaded [outro] Give me my hat, I'm coming with you Tip it to the men still working Give me my hat, I'm coming with you Move aside, I'm going with you too

[intro] They've sewn the ravens on my collar The tailor tells me lift my chin A fellow bows to bring my boots Call me what you like, I'm still Mat [verse] I win a purse from half the guard Selucia makes me give it back Tuon says to take my place And leaves a space beside her hand I tell her that my name is Mat She eats as though I mentioned rain Court manners fit me like a noose I keep on finding kitchen doors [pre-chorus] Let them finish with the bowing I learned the exits in an hour I love her. I will not become A raven stitched onto her sleeve [chorus] Call me what you like, I'm still Mat I never asked to be your prince Call me what you like, I'm still Mat Pass the dice and use my name Call me what you like, I'm still Mat I never asked to be your prince Call me what you like, I'm still Mat Pass the dice and use my name [post-chorus] She lays a hand across her waist Looks to see if I have heard I have a very clever speech I cannot find the opening word [verse] The wine is waiting by my plate I set it where it stood before The Band can wait another night I'm late. I ought to find her door We do not match on half the laws I will not smile that difference gone I married her, I didn't vanish Toy is a name. Mat is the man. [pre-chorus] Let them finish with the bowing I learned the exits in an hour I love her. I will not become A raven stitched onto her sleeve [chorus] Call me what you like, I'm still Mat I never asked to be your prince Call me what you like, I'm still Mat Pass the dice and use my name Call me what you like, I'm still Mat I never asked to be your prince Call me what you like, I'm still Mat Pass the dice and use my name [post-chorus] She lays a hand across her waist Looks to see if I have heard I have a very clever speech I cannot find the opening word [bridge] I like her mind, I like her nerve I will not wear her empire's mouth If she wants a prince, she'll get a gambler Still sitting at her table anyway Don't call me Raven like I'm finished I still play cards with all your guards I go to her because I want to That has to be enough tonight [chorus] Call me what you like, I'm still Mat I never asked to be your prince Call me what you like, I'm still Mat Pass the dice and use my name Call me what you like, I'm still Mat I never asked to be your prince Call me what you like, I'm still Mat Pass the dice and use my name [outro] Call me what you like, I'm still Mat I take the door that leads to her Call me what you like, I'm still Mat Bow later. Let me eat in peace.

[intro] They tumble somewhere in my skull The inn goes quiet as a stone I asked a man if he could hear They stopped, they stopped, what happens now [verse] Three days of missing meals over it They halt before I reach the stair A tree that nearly took my neck A woman waiting for a word The quiet falls before I know it Which little thing has turned the world Some nights I'd take a losing hand A room where no one knows my name [pre-chorus] Don't tell Rand I said as much He'd get that look I cannot bear I put my hat on straight and wait The silence has a weight I hate [chorus] They stopped, they stopped, what happens now I stop laughing for a single breath They stopped, they stopped, what happens now Who did I just put in the path They stopped, they stopped, what happens now I stop laughing for a single breath They stopped, they stopped, what happens now Who did I just put in the path [post-chorus] Someone asks which road to use I point before the question's done Tuon is somewhere in this quiet The Band is somewhere in it too [verse] I check the yard, I check the beds I want them ordinary and loud Dice in the head meant trouble coming This silence means it's already here I love too many people lately That is a stupid way to live If this is the last throw landing Let it land on someone else [pre-chorus] Don't tell Rand I said as much He'd get that look I cannot bear I put my hat on straight and wait The silence has a weight I hate [chorus] They stopped, they stopped, what happens now I stop laughing for a single breath They stopped, they stopped, what happens now Who did I just put in the path They stopped, they stopped, what happens now I stop laughing for a single breath They stopped, they stopped, what happens now Who did I just put in the path [post-chorus] Someone asks which road to use I point before the question's done Tuon is somewhere in this quiet The Band is somewhere in it too [bridge] I used to want the dice to quit I thought that meant I could walk free Now they are quiet and I miss them Because I know what quiet costs Fetch the mare, but walk her slow I need a kitchen more than omens If they start again I will complain If they stay stopped, I'll make a supper [chorus] They stopped, they stopped, what happens now I stop laughing for a single breath They stopped, they stopped, what happens now Who did I just put in the path They stopped, they stopped, what happens now I stop laughing for a single breath They stopped, they stopped, what happens now Who did I just put in the path [outro] They stopped, they stopped, what happens now The dice may start on the next stair They stopped, they stopped, what happens now Come eat. We'll know it when it comes.

[intro] The kettle's already on the boil You men are still out in the lane If that boy is burning up Bring them here, I'll see them now [verse] I take the child out of her arms His shirt is soaked against my wrist I lay him down and strip the cloth The pulse is jumping in his throat You keep on talking planting dates As if the wheat is what might die I need the bed cleared off right now And I need all of you to move [pre-chorus] Push the chairs back to the wall Crack the window for the air His mother stays if she sits still The rest of you can get out now [chorus] Bring them here, I'll see them now He's burning in the other room Bring them here, I'll see them now Then you can argue all you want Bring them here, I'll see them now He's burning in the other room Bring them here, I'll see them now Then you can argue all you want [post-chorus] Bring him while he's still himself I don't care who holds the staff If he's fevered, he comes to me You can vote on me at dawn [verse] I wring the cloth and change it twice His teeth click when the chill comes on I grind the root down into paste And spread it warm across his chest Marin holds the lamp too near I push her wrist back from the flame This fever's been three nights already You should have brought him here at dusk [pre-chorus] Push the chairs back to the wall Crack the window for the air His mother stays if she sits still The rest of you can get out now [chorus] Bring them here, I'll see them now He's burning in the other room Bring them here, I'll see them now Then you can argue all you want Bring them here, I'll see them now He's burning in the other room Bring them here, I'll see them now Then you can argue all you want [post-chorus] Bring him while he's still himself I don't care who holds the staff If he's fevered, he comes to me You can vote on me at dawn [bridge] I'm younger than half of your sons You still ask Cenn what the wind means I know that, and I'm still sitting here I wait until his breathing evens I talk this loud so my hands stay still I talk this loud so she won't scream I want him in my house tonight I can't stand another hour of waiting [chorus] Bring them here, I'll see them now He's burning in the other room Bring them here, I'll see them now Then you can argue all you want Bring them here, I'll see them now He's burning in the other room Bring them here, I'll see them now Then you can argue all you want [outro] Bring them here, I'll see them now Don't make me walk into the street If he's sick, you bring him here I'll see him. That's the whole of it

[intro] My hand is in my hair already Don't look at me like I'm small It starts shaking in my wrists I'm pulling so I don't shake [verse] Egwene went pale beside the cart I called her soft to keep moving Mat laughed and I cut him down I heard the fear come out of him I yank the braid until it hurts The hurt is better than the shake You think I'm angry at the room I'm angry I might start to cry [pre-chorus] Don't ask if I'm all right You asked that question far too late My mouth runs hot to keep you back My fingers tell the truth instead [chorus] I'm pulling my braid so I don't shake If I let go you'll see it I'm pulling my braid so I don't shake I snap so I don't say it I'm pulling my braid so I don't shake If I let go you'll see it I'm pulling my braid so I don't shake I snap so I don't say it [post-chorus] Leave my hair out of your jokes If I look fierce, then let me look This braid is holding me here I'm pulling so I don't shake [verse] Moiraine calls me child and waits Heat climbs the back of my neck I slam a cup down on the wood A friend goes quiet, I get loud I've frightened every man in town Ask anyone I sat with till dawn They'd rather I stayed on my feet I tug because the fear is worse [pre-chorus] Don't ask if I'm all right You asked that question far too late My mouth runs hot to keep you back My fingers tell the truth instead [chorus] I'm pulling my braid so I don't shake If I let go you'll see it I'm pulling my braid so I don't shake I snap so I don't say it I'm pulling my braid so I don't shake If I let go you'll see it I'm pulling my braid so I don't shake I snap so I don't say it [post-chorus] Leave my hair out of your jokes If I look fierce, then let me look This braid is holding me here I'm pulling so I don't shake [bridge] I'm frightened for them all the time That's the part I never say I tug because my hands would shake And give the whole fear away I love them more than I can stand It makes me mean, I know that If I stopped pulling I would cry Then you would try to handle me [chorus] I'm pulling my braid so I don't shake If I let go you'll see it I'm pulling my braid so I don't shake I snap so I don't say it I'm pulling my braid so I don't shake If I let go you'll see it I'm pulling my braid so I don't shake I snap so I don't say it [outro] I'm pulling so I don't shake Watch my hand if you have to I'm not a child. I'm scared I'm pulling so I don't shake

[intro] Your horse is past those ferns I taste the rot up in the leaves You ride like dying is a plan Don't ride ahead, come back to me [verse] The moss lets go against my boot Leaves turn as if they watch us I keep my knife beneath my cloak I pull my horse against your side You count the ground you mean to die on I count the water in your skin A man is bleeding in the roots You look at him, then at the road [pre-chorus] Lan, your back is all I see You take the worst stretch for yourself I didn't follow you to bury you Turn that horse and look at me [chorus] Don't ride ahead, come back to me Keep the dying for a real fight Don't ride ahead, come back to me I need you alive through the night Don't ride ahead, come back to me Keep the dying for a real fight Don't ride ahead, come back to me I need you alive through the night [post-chorus] Come back and drink the water first I packed your wound, now sit down You are not owed to the Blight yet Don't ride ahead, come back to me [verse] I hold his ribs against the dark The Power will not come for me I pack the cloth and bind it tight You nod once and take the reins I set your flask beside your hand You drink, and neither of us leaves You check the saddle while I speak I want to shake that oath from you [pre-chorus] Lan, your back is all I see You take the worst stretch for yourself I didn't follow you to bury you Turn that horse and look at me [chorus] Don't ride ahead, come back to me Keep the dying for a real fight Don't ride ahead, come back to me I need you alive through the night Don't ride ahead, come back to me Keep the dying for a real fight Don't ride ahead, come back to me I need you alive through the night [post-chorus] Come back and drink the water first I packed your wound, now sit down You are not owed to the Blight yet Don't ride ahead, come back to me [bridge] I'm not your Aes Sedai yet I have no right to hold your reins I still want you to want the morning I still want you to eat at dusk You think nobody needs you living I need you, and I hate that It started in me on this road Come back before I have to shout [chorus] Don't ride ahead, come back to me Keep the dying for a real fight Don't ride ahead, come back to me I need you alive through the night Don't ride ahead, come back to me Keep the dying for a real fight Don't ride ahead, come back to me I need you alive through the night [outro] Don't ride ahead, come back to me The leaves are listening to your horse I came this far to keep you here Come back to me. Don't ride ahead

[intro] A sister smiles and shuts the door The weave is bright beyond her hand Someone is crying in the next room Let me through, there's someone hurting [verse] They put me in a stone-white hall And tell me not to turn my head A child is reaching for my skirt A man is bleeding on the tiles I take one step against the rule I know they'll call the step a failure I know the calm they want from me I put my shoulder to the wood [pre-chorus] If I can hear them, they are mine My hands already chose the door I will not pass by someone hurting Open this, or I will break it [chorus] Let me through, there's someone hurting I hear her calling from the dark Let me through, there's someone hurting I didn't come here just to stand still Let me through, there's someone hurting I hear her calling from the dark Let me through, there's someone hurting I didn't come here just to stand still [post-chorus] Let me through before she fades I didn't sit those nights to fail her Count your weaves when I get back There's someone hurting. Let me through [verse] I bind the cut with my own sleeve The child is shaking in my arms I know what this will cost me I hear the next cry through the wall I leave the silver mark behind I run where I should only walk If this is how you make a sister Then I will fail until they live [pre-chorus] If I can hear them, they are mine My hands already chose the door I will not pass by someone hurting Open this, or I will break it [chorus] Let me through, there's someone hurting I hear her calling from the dark Let me through, there's someone hurting I didn't come here just to stand still Let me through, there's someone hurting I hear her calling from the dark Let me through, there's someone hurting I didn't come here just to stand still [post-chorus] Let me through before she fades I didn't sit those nights to fail her Count your weaves when I get back There's someone hurting. Let me through [bridge] I know the lesson. Stay the course Pretend the crying is a test I know why they will turn me down My hands go toward the sound first You can keep your passing mark I didn't learn to watch a wound If someone hurts, I go to them That's why I wanted the shawl [chorus] Let me through, there's someone hurting I hear her calling from the dark Let me through, there's someone hurting I didn't come here just to stand still Let me through, there's someone hurting I hear her calling from the dark Let me through, there's someone hurting I didn't come here just to stand still [outro] Let me through, there's someone hurting I will not stand here being good Open the door or I will Let me through, there's someone hurting

[intro] You stood there naming what was lost You spoke as if the break was law He is breathing. Look at his hands You said it couldn't be healed [verse] Logain sits and waits for nothing They say the break is all he has I feel along the empty place As if a missing limb could answer I find a seam beneath the silence I join the flows before I think He stares at me, his whole face changing I stand there shaking with surprise [pre-chorus] Hold his shoulder while I work here Move the lamp, I need to see If you cannot help, then hush now I didn't ask you for a sermon [chorus] You said it couldn't be healed He just reached and the Source came You said it couldn't be healed Get out of my light and watch You said it couldn't be healed He just reached and the Source came You said it couldn't be healed Get out of my light and watch [post-chorus] He felt it. Did you see his face Siuan's strength came back much smaller I know that. I still brought it back You said it couldn't be healed [verse] In Salidar I find the break A silence deeper than a wound I join the edges, slow as bone He reaches for it much too soon His hands fly up as if it burned Then he is laughing through the shock You cover your mouths in the doorway I tell you not to crowd the bed [pre-chorus] Hold his shoulder while I work here Move the lamp, I need to see If you cannot help, then hush now I didn't ask you for a sermon [chorus] You said it couldn't be healed He just reached and the Source came You said it couldn't be healed Get out of my light and watch You said it couldn't be healed He just reached and the Source came You said it couldn't be healed Get out of my light and watch [post-chorus] He felt it. Did you see his face Siuan's strength came back much smaller I know that. I still brought it back You said it couldn't be healed [bridge] I shook so hard I hid my hands Don't you dare call this luck Some will come back less than they were I still will take that over silence You taught me limits like a prayer I broke them because he was empty If that makes me a Yellow sister Then write it. I can Heal this [chorus] You said it couldn't be healed He just reached and the Source came You said it couldn't be healed Get out of my light and watch You said it couldn't be healed He just reached and the Source came You said it couldn't be healed Get out of my light and watch [outro] You said it couldn't be healed He reached, and it was there again Write a new rule on your slate You said it couldn't be healed

[intro] He packed as if I wouldn't see He left a speech instead of breakfast I told the horse before the man He is mine, bring him home [verse] He buckles the last strap at dusk He talks as if the road is private I stand between him and the gate Until he has to look at me He says a wife would keep a grave I tell him I already chose The ring sits warm beneath my dress I didn't ask him for a widow's year [pre-chorus] If you rode with him once, ride now If you remember Malkier, stand up I'm sending word to every inn Bring him home. He is not spare [chorus] He is mine, bring him home Don't let him ride that road alone He is mine, bring him home Stand with him if you still remember He is mine, bring him home Don't let him ride that road alone He is mine, bring him home Stand with him if you still remember [post-chorus] Bring him home when the fighting ends Don't toast a man who isn't dead He is mine, I said it first Now I'm asking you to come [verse] I write until my hand cramps shut I write names I barely even know I tell them their king is riding out I tell them he believes he's last A boy in a stable takes a letter An old man weeps and takes another I can't go and drag him back So I'll fill the road behind him [pre-chorus] If you rode with him once, ride now If you remember Malkier, stand up I'm sending word to every inn Bring him home. He is not spare [chorus] He is mine, bring him home Don't let him ride that road alone He is mine, bring him home Stand with him if you still remember He is mine, bring him home Don't let him ride that road alone He is mine, bring him home Stand with him if you still remember [post-chorus] Bring him home when the fighting ends Don't toast a man who isn't dead He is mine, I said it first Now I'm asking you to come [bridge] I called him mine before he agreed That's the part that still shames me It sounded like I owned a man I meant I wouldn't let him vanish Bring him home means ride beside him I can't be the only one If Malkier still has a king Then prove it on the road with him [chorus] He is mine, bring him home Don't let him ride that road alone He is mine, bring him home Stand with him if you still remember He is mine, bring him home Don't let him ride that road alone He is mine, bring him home Stand with him if you still remember [outro] He is mine, bring him home I already told it to the horse Now I am telling all of you He is mine, bring him home

[intro] The water closes over my mouth My arms give out against the pull I stop bracing at the door I let go, and the light came in [verse] I clenched my jaw to make it come A sharp word did the work for years I kept my temper like a coal I thought the anger was the key The block sat locked inside my chest Under this water it won't turn My lungs are empty, so I yield I let the water have my hands [pre-chorus] No anger left to hold me up No breath left inside my chest I stop demanding it obey me And feel the light come flooding in [chorus] I let go, and the light came in I could not fight that last wave I let go, and the light came in You called my name. I reached back I let go, and the light came in I could not fight that last wave I let go, and the light came in You called my name. I reached back [post-chorus] The light came in without anger I'm still here. I can still work My braid is soaked and heavy I let go, and the light came in [verse] You pull me up and hold me close Your coat drops heavy on my knees I cough the water out and shake You say my name until I answer My fingers hunt the soaked braid out Then rest. I don't yank it taut The Power fills me, wide and plain I didn't have to hate to hold it [pre-chorus] No anger left to hold me up No breath left inside my chest I stop demanding it obey me And feel the light come flooding in [chorus] I let go, and the light came in I could not fight that last wave I let go, and the light came in You called my name. I reached back I let go, and the light came in I could not fight that last wave I let go, and the light came in You called my name. I reached back [post-chorus] The light came in without anger I'm still here. I can still work My braid is soaked and heavy I let go, and the light came in [bridge] I was so sure the rage was me If I dropped it I'd go small The shame is I enjoyed the armor It hid the shaking in my hands Letting go was how I stayed alive I can still shout. I can still Heal I needed air more than pride That's how the light got in [chorus] I let go, and the light came in I could not fight that last wave I let go, and the light came in You called my name. I reached back I let go, and the light came in I could not fight that last wave I let go, and the light came in You called my name. I reached back [outro] I let go, and the light came in You pulled me up. I let you My braid can wait. I'm breathing I let go, and the light came in

[intro] Rain on the shutter, pale kitchen light You reach for the swordbelt out of habit I catch your wrist before it lands Stay for breakfast, stay with me [verse] I crack the eggs against the rim Fat pops once in the iron pan Your coat is on the chair already As if the road began at dawn I set two plates. I pour the tea I leave the braid down on my back My hand still finds it when I worry I tug it once, then let it hang [pre-chorus] Lan, sit down. The tea is hot Your boots can wait beside the door I made enough for both of us Stay with me through one ordinary hour [chorus] Stay for breakfast, stay with me The pan is already on the heat Stay for breakfast, stay with me Don't put your boots on for the road Stay for breakfast, stay with me The pan is already on the heat Stay for breakfast, stay with me Don't put your boots on for the road [post-chorus] Stay. The rain is still coming down There is no army in the yard I want you chewing bread with me Stay for breakfast, stay with me [verse] You eat like someone keeping watch Your eyes go to the window twice I slide the jam across the wood You laugh, then catch it in your throat I take your empty cup and fill it My hip against your shoulder, brief This is the life I dragged you toward Now I'm asking you to live it [pre-chorus] Lan, sit down. The tea is hot Your boots can wait beside the door I made enough for both of us Stay with me through one ordinary hour [chorus] Stay for breakfast, stay with me The pan is already on the heat Stay for breakfast, stay with me Don't put your boots on for the road Stay for breakfast, stay with me The pan is already on the heat Stay for breakfast, stay with me Don't put your boots on for the road [post-chorus] Stay. The rain is still coming down There is no army in the yard I want you chewing bread with me Stay for breakfast, stay with me [bridge] I used to think that staying was lazy That love meant packing you a bag The shame is I still wait for leaving I listen for the buckle in the hall The river does not ask the stone It just keeps coming in the morning I want that. I want you here I want you eating at this table [chorus] Stay for breakfast, stay with me The pan is already on the heat Stay for breakfast, stay with me Don't put your boots on for the road Stay for breakfast, stay with me The pan is already on the heat Stay for breakfast, stay with me Don't put your boots on for the road [outro] Stay for breakfast, stay with me The second cup is already poured Your sword can wait an hour more Stay for breakfast, stay with me

[intro] I gave my word in a quiet room Siuan looked at me and did not speak I will not turn from what we chose The night keeps asking me to stop [verse] I left my family name behind me My uncle wanted a useful niece I chose the Blue and packed a horse The Hall still thinks I hunt old books Siuan and I split a list of names We burned the second copy in the grate I answered questions with the smallest truth And kept the greater secret for us both [pre-chorus] You asked if I would come home soon You asked if I still loved that house I folded both questions into silence I have a longer debt than that [chorus] I gave my word, I will not turn The search is still the only road I gave my word, I will not turn Siuan, I am keeping what we swore I gave my word, I will not turn The search is still the only road I gave my word, I will not turn Siuan, I am keeping what we swore [post-chorus] I gave my word in that first winter The maps wear thin along the fold I will not turn, I told the dark The dark has learned to wait me out [verse] Twenty years of inns and borrowed names A mother answers from a kitchen doorway Her boy is grown; his birthday wrong I thank her and go back into the rain Lan saddles in the cold at dawn He does not ask me where we ride I mark another village on the page Siuan, I have not found him yet [pre-chorus] You asked if I would come home soon You asked if I still loved that house I folded both questions into silence I have a longer debt than that [chorus] I gave my word, I will not turn The search is still the only road I gave my word, I will not turn Siuan, I am keeping what we swore I gave my word, I will not turn The search is still the only road I gave my word, I will not turn Siuan, I am keeping what we swore [post-chorus] I gave my word in that first winter The maps wear thin along the fold I will not turn, I told the dark The dark has learned to wait me out [bridge] I am afraid the names are gone I am afraid I like the hardness If I stopped now I would have nothing No quiet house, no ordinary life The vow is the only thing I own I hold it tighter than my name Do not offer me a softer year I would not know the way to take it [chorus] I gave my word, I will not turn The search is still the only road I gave my word, I will not turn Siuan, I am keeping what we swore I gave my word, I will not turn The search is still the only road I gave my word, I will not turn Siuan, I am keeping what we swore [outro] I gave my word, I will not turn The letter stays inside my coat I will not turn, not even now Ask me again. The answer holds.

[intro] Snow on the stones of the Tower yard Gitara's cup rolls from her hand I never heard him; still I hear him A child is crying somewhere in the snow [verse] I carried tea into that quiet room Gitara cried out that the child was born She fell into my arms and did not breathe Siuan's eyes found mine across the room We did not speak until the stairs Then we named the work in whispers A boy born on the mountain in the war We would have to find him first [pre-chorus] How many winters does a search take How many names die on a page I keep a sound I never heard It keeps me riding after dark [chorus] A child is crying somewhere in the snow I pack the names and leave at first light A child is crying somewhere in the snow Do not tell me he can wait A child is crying somewhere in the snow I pack the names and leave at first light A child is crying somewhere in the snow Do not tell me he can wait [post-chorus] Somewhere he is small enough to carry Somewhere he needs someone to hold him A child is crying. I keep moving. The Tower cannot hear him from here [verse] The sisters sent to find him started dying I learned to fear a friendly face I kept the names where none could see Then carried them through twenty years Each empty road became another winter I fold the page against my breast A hungry sound I never heard It follows me through every inn [pre-chorus] How many winters does a search take How many names die on a page I keep a sound I never heard It keeps me riding after dark [chorus] A child is crying somewhere in the snow I pack the names and leave at first light A child is crying somewhere in the snow Do not tell me he can wait A child is crying somewhere in the snow I pack the names and leave at first light A child is crying somewhere in the snow Do not tell me he can wait [post-chorus] Somewhere he is small enough to carry Somewhere he needs someone to hold him A child is crying. I keep moving. The Tower cannot hear him from here [bridge] I hold a cry I never heard It makes the cold feel like a duty If he is warm I still will hunt I need the cry to keep me moving Siuan, I am tired of empty towns I still will not come back without him I am ashamed I need the sound Silence would let me turn for home [chorus] A child is crying somewhere in the snow I pack the names and leave at first light A child is crying somewhere in the snow Do not tell me he can wait A child is crying somewhere in the snow I pack the names and leave at first light A child is crying somewhere in the snow Do not tell me he can wait [outro] A child is crying somewhere in the snow I was not there; I think of him The snow is in my boots by noon I ride toward a voice I made

[intro] You pour the wine. I watch your wrist. The chair you offer sits too close Smile at me. I learned this young. The knives are never on the table [verse] The Sun Palace taught me how to sit My uncle measured me for usefulness A servant carries talk to the next floor I learned to send a word that high You ask which house I still serve I drink and let the question cool Cairhien smiles with its mouth shut I keep my own mouth closed as well [pre-chorus] Do not seat me nearer to the fire Do not tell me I look at home I left this court. I still read it. Your kindness has a second door [chorus] Smile at me, I'll count the knives Your welcome has a price behind it Smile at me, I'll count the knives I will not sit where you spend me Smile at me, I'll count the knives Your welcome has a price behind it Smile at me, I'll count the knives I will not sit where you spend me [post-chorus] Count them. I was born to this. I will not be a house's pawn Smile if you must. I am counting. The wine is sweet. I set it down. [verse] The host asks when I last came home Then waits to hear which name I give A letter left where a clerk will read Horses waiting in a stall too small You want the Blue at your table You want my blood to open doors I take the bread. I thank the host. I leave before the debt can catch [pre-chorus] Do not seat me nearer to the fire Do not tell me I look at home I left this court. I still read it. Your kindness has a second door [chorus] Smile at me, I'll count the knives Your welcome has a price behind it Smile at me, I'll count the knives I will not sit where you spend me Smile at me, I'll count the knives Your welcome has a price behind it Smile at me, I'll count the knives I will not sit where you spend me [post-chorus] Count them. I was born to this. I will not be a house's pawn Smile if you must. I am counting. The wine is sweet. I set it down. [bridge] The ugly truth is I still like it The counting keeps my fear in order If I stopped watching I would shake The Game is how I stay alive I am not above my uncle's house I only left it for a harder hunt Do not mistake my quiet for peace I am choosing where the blade will miss [chorus] Smile at me, I'll count the knives Your welcome has a price behind it Smile at me, I'll count the knives I will not sit where you spend me Smile at me, I'll count the knives Your welcome has a price behind it Smile at me, I'll count the knives I will not sit where you spend me [outro] Smile at me, I'll count the knives Your chair is close. I decline it. I will not sit inside your plan I counted them before I came

[intro] Lan, the road is longer than I said You already know that. Ride anyway. Stay beside me one more mile I will not make the asking pretty [verse] Three riders on a muddy winter road You offered me your hand for work I told you what the years would take You did not ask me for a kinder map You sleep between me and the door You count the men before the chairs In Baerlon you paid less than I You name Malkier when the fire thins [pre-chorus] I have no right to keep you walking The bond is duty. That is all. Still I need you on the next rise Do not make me say it twice [chorus] Stay beside me one more mile The next rise is still in the dark Stay beside me one more mile I am asking you to stay and ride Stay beside me one more mile The next rise is still in the dark Stay beside me one more mile I am asking you to stay and ride [post-chorus] One more mile. Then another after. You have already given more than most Stay. I will not dress it as command. The bond is quiet. I am not. [verse] I arranged who takes your bond if I am lost Myrelle has promised she will keep you living You will not forgive me. I knew that. The door will close. You cannot follow. I left a road I will not walk Tell Nynaeve the words I spared She can meet you somewhere living I could not give you that myself [pre-chorus] I have no right to keep you walking The bond is duty. That is all. Still I need you on the next rise Do not make me say it twice [chorus] Stay beside me one more mile The next rise is still in the dark Stay beside me one more mile I am asking you to stay and ride Stay beside me one more mile The next rise is still in the dark Stay beside me one more mile I am asking you to stay and ride [post-chorus] One more mile. Then another after. You have already given more than most Stay. I will not dress it as command. The bond is quiet. I am not. [bridge] I have not said I am afraid If you rode off I would still hunt That is the lie I use at night I need you at the edge of sight You are the friend the work requires The shame is how much I need that I give orders so I will not beg Tonight I am begging for a mile [chorus] Stay beside me one more mile The next rise is still in the dark Stay beside me one more mile I am asking you to stay and ride Stay beside me one more mile The next rise is still in the dark Stay beside me one more mile I am asking you to stay and ride [outro] Stay beside me one more mile Then I will try to let you go One more mile. I know the pattern. Lan, I am still not done asking.

[intro] Rand, her weaves are driving you back The redstone stands up from the quay If I let go, she kills you I have already chosen the step [verse] Twenty years have led me to these boards The water throws a shaking yellow light She does not see me as a problem Her anger is all pointed at you I left two letters under heavy seals One for you, and one to reach Thom I left no letter Lan could follow He would come after; I cannot allow it [pre-chorus] One breath. Then I take her wrist. The doorway is the only door left You call my name across the planks I do not turn. I cannot turn. [chorus] If I let go, she kills you So I hold on with both hands If I let go, she kills you I take us through. That is the cost. If I let go, she kills you So I hold on with both hands If I let go, she kills you I take us through. That is the cost. [post-chorus] If I let go, you do not live I came too far to watch you fall She can have me. She cannot have you. The frame is waiting. I am moving. [verse] I throw myself at her and take us through Her surprise gives me the only opening You reach. There is no time to answer The quay falls backward from my feet I expect the price to be terrible I take it while my hands still work Do not come after. Read the letter. White light swallows everything behind us [pre-chorus] One breath. Then I take her wrist. The doorway is the only door left You call my name across the planks I do not turn. I cannot turn. [chorus] If I let go, she kills you So I hold on with both hands If I let go, she kills you I take us through. That is the cost. If I let go, she kills you So I hold on with both hands If I let go, she kills you I take us through. That is the cost. [post-chorus] If I let go, you do not live I came too far to watch you fall She can have me. She cannot have you. The frame is waiting. I am moving. [bridge] I have no time left to be brave I know how many roads end with you dead I saw enough to choose this one I will not let her take you from us Twenty years, and she would end you I refuse. That is the whole plan If this is dying, let it be useful Rand, live. I have no better order. [chorus] If I let go, she kills you So I hold on with both hands If I let go, she kills you I take us through. That is the cost. If I let go, she kills you So I hold on with both hands If I let go, she kills you I take us through. That is the cost. [outro] If I let go, she kills you I do not let go. I hold on. The redstone takes the rest of me You stay. That was the only need.

[intro] You can take it, I am still here No sun. No hour to keep You come again for what I hold I name the terms and try to stand [verse] They offer me a gift to name I ask for something I can hold Their hunger finds the Power in me I feel it thinning as they feed I bargained for each scrap they gave I sent the letter from Cairhien first I pray that Thom has read it now I cannot walk out of here alone [pre-chorus] Take the strength. Leave me the waiting. I must survive one more visit Do not offer me a kinder dream I will not trade away the terms [chorus] You can take it, I am still here Take the Power. I keep my will. You can take it, I am still here They may still find me; I can wait You can take it, I am still here Take the Power. I keep my will. You can take it, I am still here They may still find me; I can wait [post-chorus] I am still here when you finish The walls close in beyond my reach Take it. I still have hours left. The hope is small. I hold it. [verse] No morning I can count on here I press my palm against the wall I count the visits by the strength I lose Their hunger does not care for law I think of Thom and Mat by name I do not turn the thought to prayer They might still come because I asked That thought is all I have to hold [pre-chorus] Take the strength. Leave me the waiting. I must survive one more visit Do not offer me a kinder dream I will not trade away the terms [chorus] You can take it, I am still here Take the Power. I keep my will. You can take it, I am still here They may still find me; I can wait You can take it, I am still here Take the Power. I keep my will. You can take it, I am still here They may still find me; I can wait [post-chorus] I am still here when you finish The walls close in beyond my reach Take it. I still have hours left. The hope is small. I hold it. [bridge] I want to hear his boots outside I am ashamed how much I need them I told myself I chose this cage Choice does not make the feeding kind You can have the Power. Leave my will. That bargain is the last I own When they come I may look wrong Take me anyway; I tried to last [chorus] You can take it, I am still here Take the Power. I keep my will. You can take it, I am still here They may still find me; I can wait You can take it, I am still here Take the Power. I keep my will. You can take it, I am still here They may still find me; I can wait [outro] You can take it, I am still here Mat, Thom, I left a way in I am still here. Do not be late. I cannot walk this out alone

[intro] You came back for me, you came back The morning is too bright, too loud I cannot hold the old amount You came anyway. I have no speech. [verse] Thom, you held my hand and looked away Mat paid an eye to bring me out I asked for time. You gave me steps The chairs had all been moved Without the bracelet little answers A tiny flame still warms my palm I am not the woman who went in You came for her. You found this. [pre-chorus] Do not tell me it was nothing I see the cost on both of you I have no old strength to repay I have thanks. Let that be enough. [chorus] You came back for me, you came back I never had the right to hope You came back for me, you came back Thom, I am keeping that as love You came back for me, you came back I never had the right to hope You came back for me, you came back Thom, I am keeping that as love [post-chorus] You came back. I am learning how. The horse goes slow so I can sit You came back. I keep saying it. The words are plain. They have to be. [verse] Nynaeve holds his bond at last I hope their years can be their own The world has changed while I was gone Tonight I want to learn your face Thom laughs. I had not heard that here I smile; your hand is holding mine There is a letter not yet written Give me tonight. Letters can wait. [pre-chorus] Do not tell me it was nothing I see the cost on both of you I have no old strength to repay I have thanks. Let that be enough. [chorus] You came back for me, you came back I never had the right to hope You came back for me, you came back Thom, I am keeping that as love You came back for me, you came back I never had the right to hope You came back for me, you came back Thom, I am keeping that as love [post-chorus] You came back. I am learning how. The horse goes slow so I can sit You came back. I keep saying it. The words are plain. They have to be. [bridge] I love you; there, I finally said it So much for keeping my composure You pulled me out of a hungry dark I cannot wear the Tower here Mat, I saw what you left in there I cannot pretend to repay an eye Stay near the fire a little longer I am home because you turned around [chorus] You came back for me, you came back I never had the right to hope You came back for me, you came back Thom, I am keeping that as love You came back for me, you came back I never had the right to hope You came back for me, you came back Thom, I am keeping that as love [outro] You came back for me, you came back I cup the small flame I have You came back. I will not waste it. Tomorrow we can be brave again.

[intro] I brought the boy out of his home I stand beside the man he is I cannot do this in your place The rock is warm. It should not be. [verse] Nynaeve stands beside me in the glare We wait until the opening comes My hands are steady; I am frightened The sword of light waits for his hand I spent so long preparing for this And still I cannot make it certain Twenty years of letters, burned or sent They end here; I do not steer you [pre-chorus] I want to tell you the next step That hunger is the old bad habit You have to choose. I let you. My planning stops at your two hands. [chorus] I cannot do this in your place The last weave is yours to finish I cannot do this in your place I trust you; take what we can give I cannot do this in your place The last weave is yours to finish I cannot do this in your place I trust you; take what we can give [post-chorus] I cannot do this in your place We hold together through the blinding light Hold. We will carry what we can. The opening is yours to take. [verse] Moridin takes the sword and draws its power The flaw that Min found gives us our way in Nynaeve and I take hold together Then join with you; the power rushes through The circle holds; I hold my place I give you everything that I can carry Rand, go where we cannot follow you I will be here when you come back [pre-chorus] I want to tell you the next step That hunger is the old bad habit You have to choose. I let you. My planning stops at your two hands. [chorus] I cannot do this in your place The last weave is yours to finish I cannot do this in your place I trust you; take what we can give I cannot do this in your place The last weave is yours to finish I cannot do this in your place I trust you; take what we can give [post-chorus] I cannot do this in your place We hold together through the blinding light Hold. We will carry what we can. The opening is yours to take. [bridge] The shame is I want to order you Child, I almost said. I stopped. You are not mine to keep from falling Twenty years, and still you are not mine If you fail, I fail beside you That is the bargain I can live with I let the plan fall from my hands Do what you must. I am with you. [chorus] I cannot do this in your place The last weave is yours to finish I cannot do this in your place I trust you; take what we can give I cannot do this in your place The last weave is yours to finish I cannot do this in your place I trust you; take what we can give [outro] I cannot do this in your place The circle holds. I hold my place. The sword is where it should be Go. I will not call you back.

[intro] You sent me south before I walked You laid a sword across my chest I was a baby, you gave me a war I never saw the towers fall [verse] They told me how you died defending it I learned the fallen names first Bukama put the hilt in my hands He would not hear I was tired I slept with steel against my ribs I woke and said those names again I asked him where the towers stood He showed a map worn at the fold [pre-chorus] I rode north looking for the lake The water is black, the banks are wrong I have no grave to stand beside Mother, you still owe me an answer [chorus] I was a baby, you gave me a war I never chose the road you named I was a baby, you gave me a war I carry a country I never walked I was a baby, you gave me a war I never chose the road you named I was a baby, you gave me a war I carry a country I never walked [post-chorus] I keep your map inside the saddle The crease is soft under my thumb I was a baby, you gave me a war I still cannot picture the lake [verse] They laid Bukama beneath the ground Another name I could not keep The old map rides in my bag Worn through at the fold and corner I went back twice to empty ground No safe house, no one waiting I know the songs they made me learn I want the rain they promised me [pre-chorus] I rode north looking for the lake The water is black, the banks are wrong I have no grave to stand beside Mother, you still owe me an answer [chorus] I was a baby, you gave me a war I never chose the road you named I was a baby, you gave me a war I carry a country I never walked I was a baby, you gave me a war I never chose the road you named I was a baby, you gave me a war I carry a country I never walked [post-chorus] I keep your map inside the saddle The crease is soft under my thumb I was a baby, you gave me a war I still cannot picture the lake [bridge] I wanted you alive to tell me What the towers looked like at dusk I practiced names until they stuck They never turned back into people I am tired of being the last I have nothing left to show you I still wait for you to lift it The oath you laid on a child [chorus] I was a baby, you gave me a war I never chose the road you named I was a baby, you gave me a war I carry a country I never walked I was a baby, you gave me a war I never chose the road you named I was a baby, you gave me a war I carry a country I never walked [outro] I keep the map. I keep the oath I was a baby, you gave me a war Nothing answers on that empty ground I ride that ground anyway, mother

[intro] I feel you there, I ride again You asked and waited in the rain I had a last road already planned The north can wait; you will not [verse] You stood in rain and named the work I watched it thin along your hair I thought about the long north road Then I told you where we start You do not sleep when I am hurt I wake the hour your breath thins I keep the fire. You keep the plan I do not ask you where we go [pre-chorus] You hide the cost inside your face I see it anyway, across the bond You are mortal. I keep the watch I ride so you can close your eyes [chorus] I feel you there, I ride again The hurt crosses the miles to me I feel you there, I ride again I turn the horse and come for you I feel you there, I ride again The hurt crosses the miles to me I feel you there, I ride again I turn the horse and come for you [post-chorus] I lie awake until you sleep The fire is low beside my boots I feel you there, I ride again You do not have to call my name [verse] I had the last ride planned and done Aan'allein, going home to the Blight You broke a clean and lonely plan You never bother to say you are sorry I buckle the girth before first light You are already up in the saddle Malkier is dead and I am its sword I keep this watch so you can sleep [pre-chorus] You hide the cost inside your face I see it anyway, across the bond You are mortal. I keep the watch I ride so you can close your eyes [chorus] I feel you there, I ride again The hurt crosses the miles to me I feel you there, I ride again I turn the horse and come for you I feel you there, I ride again The hurt crosses the miles to me I feel you there, I ride again I turn the horse and come for you [post-chorus] I lie awake until you sleep The fire is low beside my boots I feel you there, I ride again You do not have to call my name [bridge] I did not want a companion I wanted a grave with no witness You know the day I have chosen You have known it longer than I I did not ask you to carry that The bond carries that weight anyway I am afraid you will die first That is why I do not sleep [chorus] I feel you there, I ride again The hurt crosses the miles to me I feel you there, I ride again I turn the horse and come for you I feel you there, I ride again The hurt crosses the miles to me I feel you there, I ride again I turn the horse and come for you [outro] I wake before you call my name I feel you there, I ride again Sleep. I have the dark for now I will be here when it breaks

[intro] You practice this stroke only once You drop the guard. You let him in I'll take the wound if it ends this There is no second try in the yard [verse] I show the boys the open line They want a parry that still wins I spend the body for a half step His steel goes in; my hand comes through You do not finish this in practice You finish it in blood and luck I name it so they will remember Then I put the sword back home [pre-chorus] Most days I buckle on the blade Most days I put the stroke away I ask at dawn if this is it I ride out and I wait again [chorus] I'll take the wound if it ends this I lay the guard aside and wait I'll take the wound if it ends this His steel goes in; my reach is bought I'll take the wound if it ends this I lay the guard aside and wait I'll take the wound if it ends this His steel goes in; my reach is bought [post-chorus] Forty years and the stroke unspent I hold it. I hold it still I'll take the wound if it ends this I have not spent the body yet [verse] I taught it to a boy who hated it He asked for a guard that survives There is no such guard left now When every other answer has failed The bond would know the instant So I hold the stroke another day I do not count how many remain Counting it is the stroke already [pre-chorus] Most days I buckle on the blade Most days I put the stroke away I ask at dawn if this is it I ride out and I wait again [chorus] I'll take the wound if it ends this I lay the guard aside and wait I'll take the wound if it ends this His steel goes in; my reach is bought I'll take the wound if it ends this I lay the guard aside and wait I'll take the wound if it ends this His steel goes in; my reach is bought [post-chorus] Forty years and the stroke unspent I hold it. I hold it still I'll take the wound if it ends this I have not spent the body yet [bridge] I am not brave about the hit I am tired of carrying the choice I would rather live and be late I keep the stroke for the right man If the right one comes I will open I will let the blade find my side I will hate it while I do it I will do it anyway, and end this [chorus] I'll take the wound if it ends this I lay the guard aside and wait I'll take the wound if it ends this His steel goes in; my reach is bought I'll take the wound if it ends this I lay the guard aside and wait I'll take the wound if it ends this His steel goes in; my reach is bought [outro] I'll take the wound if it ends this I still ride with the stroke unused Do not ask me if I am ready I have been ready my whole life

[intro] You dug the steel out of my shoulder You tied the cloth against my chest Say my name like I can come home I have no home except that sound [verse] You wear a braid and give orders I have minded Aes Sedai less You packed to ride the road I named You watched me check the girth twice I said I would leave you a widow You said the choosing was not mine I gave the signet for your safety A smaller lie. You let it lie [pre-chorus] I keep saying the bond is elsewhere You pack in the dark anyway I expect to die on the north road I still want you to say my name [chorus] Say my name like I can come home I never let you hear me mean it Say my name like I can come home I will turn the horse if you call Say my name like I can come home I never let you hear me mean it Say my name like I can come home I will turn the horse if you call [post-chorus] Nynaeve, I am trying to refuse you The speech is ready. It stays thin Say my name like I can come home I cannot keep the oath from cracking [verse] The oath had no crack until you I want your hand beyond this duty I watch you pack in half dark You do not ask if I want this You fold my spare shirt like it matters You tie the waterskin where I reach You scold the horse for going north I let you. I am already yours [pre-chorus] I keep saying the bond is elsewhere You pack in the dark anyway I expect to die on the north road I still want you to say my name [chorus] Say my name like I can come home I never let you hear me mean it Say my name like I can come home I will turn the horse if you call Say my name like I can come home I never let you hear me mean it Say my name like I can come home I will turn the horse if you call [post-chorus] Nynaeve, I am trying to refuse you The speech is ready. It stays thin Say my name like I can come home I cannot keep the oath from cracking [bridge] I practiced the speech that sends you The last line dies in my teeth I claimed I was finished I want to live and I am ashamed You put a future in my mouth I swallow it and still I ride I did not mean to want mornings Say my name. I am not gone yet [chorus] Say my name like I can come home I never let you hear me mean it Say my name like I can come home I will turn the horse if you call Say my name like I can come home I never let you hear me mean it Say my name like I can come home I will turn the horse if you call [outro] Say my name like I can come home I put the speech away unfinished I want you. I did not plan this Call me anyway. I will hear it

[intro] Five days out from the last inn The horse knows the road. I stay quiet I said alone, why are you still here I packed for one and you brought more [verse] I turned the young men at the cairn One brought his father's unused sword I sent him home with it unearned I ate standing. I slept in the saddle Nynaeve, you heard me promise loneliness You took the other roads to speak my name You asked the question I would not Now the road is loud behind my back [pre-chorus] I am trying to keep you living You treat that like an insult Go home. This border is mine I cannot bury all of you [chorus] I said alone, why are you still here I do not want your names on my list I said alone, why are you still here Turn the horses. I am not asking I said alone, why are you still here I do not want your names on my list I said alone, why are you still here Turn the horses. I am not asking [post-chorus] Somebody has to walk this border There is no one meant to relieve me I said alone, why are you still here You will die for a man already spent [verse] Aan'allein, they named me in the Waste They meant a people packed in one man I draw their fields upon the sand I wipe them out with my boot You ride anyway, close as a shadow You share the bread I did not pack I snap at you to make you leave You pass me water and stay mounted [pre-chorus] I am trying to keep you living You treat that like an insult Go home. This border is mine I cannot bury all of you [chorus] I said alone, why are you still here I do not want your names on my list I said alone, why are you still here Turn the horses. I am not asking I said alone, why are you still here I do not want your names on my list I said alone, why are you still here Turn the horses. I am not asking [post-chorus] Somebody has to walk this border There is no one meant to relieve me I said alone, why are you still here You will die for a man already spent [bridge] I am not angry you disobeyed I am afraid I will get you killed I have graves enough along this road I know the depth of them by now I cannot forbid what you choose I never could. I only pretended If you will not go, then keep up Do not make me watch you fall [chorus] I said alone, why are you still here I do not want your names on my list I said alone, why are you still here Turn the horses. I am not asking I said alone, why are you still here I do not want your names on my list I said alone, why are you still here Turn the horses. I am not asking [outro] I said alone, why are you still here Ride if you will. Do not expect thanks I wanted a clean death with no witnesses You ruined it. Stay on my left

[intro] Noon in a market. No speech given A pole from a cart. Cloth from a dyer Raise it high, let them see we're here I set it. Andere held it. I mounted [verse] A man in wool asked who I was I told him. He went home for a sword Eleven by evening. Forty by dawn Half had no mail. One had a hay fork A woman named the lake we lost I answered with my father's name She called the children from the tents She made them stand and say them plain [pre-chorus] I told them the road and its end Every man sat still. Worse than turning Thousands now, and the camp needs a name I am responsible for the living [chorus] Raise it high, let them see we're here The last country under it is gone Raise it high, let them see we're here Count them anyway. They came. Count them Raise it high, let them see we're here The last country under it is gone Raise it high, let them see we're here Count them anyway. They came. Count them [post-chorus] Dai Shan, they say, in the old sense My father earned it. Then he died Raise it high, let them see we're here I ride the Gap with living men [verse] I wanted a grave with no banner They made a column out of my name I set the cloth where all can see The wind takes it without care I accept the ones who found me I will not pretend we have a home Nynaeve said the words. I raised it I keep it up because they need it [pre-chorus] I told them the road and its end Every man sat still. Worse than turning Thousands now, and the camp needs a name I am responsible for the living [chorus] Raise it high, let them see we're here The last country under it is gone Raise it high, let them see we're here Count them anyway. They came. Count them Raise it high, let them see we're here The last country under it is gone Raise it high, let them see we're here Count them anyway. They came. Count them [post-chorus] Dai Shan, they say, in the old sense My father earned it. Then he died Raise it high, let them see we're here I ride the Gap with living men [bridge] I was ready to die without a banner A banner means I have to bring them back Malkier is still gone under this cloth They stand with me. That is the work If we fall, they fall under my cloth That sits heavier than riding alone Still I keep it up in the weather Let them see us. Let them come [chorus] Raise it high, let them see we're here The last country under it is gone Raise it high, let them see we're here Count them anyway. They came. Count them Raise it high, let them see we're here The last country under it is gone Raise it high, let them see we're here Count them anyway. They came. Count them [outro] Raise it high, let them see we're here The tents are stirring. The Crane is up I ride in front because they need it I will try to bring them through

[intro] Hit me, I'll still get close enough He called for the Dragon all morning The Dragon did not come. I did I gave the name I was born to [verse] I killed a man of his in mud He turned. He asked me for my name Dai Shan, of a country with no claim He had never heard of Malkier He had heard of the sword I carry His hand moves faster than my eye I watch the blade and give a step I cannot match him. I can close [pre-chorus] Let him take the first. Take the second I give him less than half a step Nynaeve, if this is the hour I keep your voice inside the work [chorus] Hit me, I'll still get close enough Let the blade come where it wants Hit me, I'll still get close enough I buy the half step with my body Hit me, I'll still get close enough Let the blade come where it wants Hit me, I'll still get close enough I buy the half step with my body [post-chorus] His reach is longer. I knew that I did not come here to win pretty Hit me, I'll still get close enough Open the line. Spend the whole chest [verse] I drop the guard the way I taught His steel finds the place I offered I am already inside the pain My hand has the distance it needed I do not know if I will stand I feel the edge go through his neck The sky goes white above the field I try to say her name through it [pre-chorus] Let him take the first. Take the second I give him less than half a step Nynaeve, if this is the hour I keep your voice inside the work [chorus] Hit me, I'll still get close enough Let the blade come where it wants Hit me, I'll still get close enough I buy the half step with my body Hit me, I'll still get close enough Let the blade come where it wants Hit me, I'll still get close enough I buy the half step with my body [post-chorus] His reach is longer. I knew that I did not come here to win pretty Hit me, I'll still get close enough Open the line. Spend the whole chest [bridge] I wanted her door and a morning I spent that want on a half step I cannot take the bargain back If I fall, tell her I chose this If I rise, I still belong to her The wound is the price. I pay it I do not know the other side I only need one stroke to land [chorus] Hit me, I'll still get close enough Let the blade come where it wants Hit me, I'll still get close enough I buy the half step with my body Hit me, I'll still get close enough Let the blade come where it wants Hit me, I'll still get close enough I buy the half step with my body [outro] Hit me, I'll still get close enough He falls. I cannot feel my arm Nynaeve, I am trying to answer you Hold on. I have not gone yet

[intro] The field is quiet. Smoke goes sideways My sword lies in the mud beside me I'm coming home, leave the light on I made the strike I meant to make [verse] A healer lifts me from the mud I cannot tell who holds my head I try to ask about the line She tells me I must lie instead I did not stop. I woke anyway The Crane still stands in the smoke I cannot lift my arm to reach Malkier is dead. I am still here [pre-chorus] Nobody taught me the next word I had no plan beyond that hit Nynaeve, I am not a grave yet I want the house I would not promise [chorus] I'm coming home, leave the light on I can say your name out loud I'm coming home, leave the light on Set a bowl beside the bed for me I'm coming home, leave the light on I can say your name out loud I'm coming home, leave the light on Set a bowl beside the bed for me [post-chorus] You pull the blanket to my chin You set the bowl and shake your head I'm coming home, leave the light on I ask about the horse. Eat, you say [verse] You find me when the shouting thins You are still angry I rode without you You press your brow against my hair I cannot lift my hand to hold you I ask if our men made it through You sit beside me while I count I want a chair that faces your door I want to be late and hear you scold [pre-chorus] Nobody taught me the next word I had no plan beyond that hit Nynaeve, I am not a grave yet I want the house I would not promise [chorus] I'm coming home, leave the light on I can say your name out loud I'm coming home, leave the light on Set a bowl beside the bed for me I'm coming home, leave the light on I can say your name out loud I'm coming home, leave the light on Set a bowl beside the bed for me [post-chorus] You pull the blanket to my chin You set the bowl and shake your head I'm coming home, leave the light on I ask about the horse. Eat, you say [bridge] I thought the oath ended in dying Staying alive feels like stolen bread I am glad to steal it anyway I want ordinary years with you I cannot fix the country I lost I can come home and split the wood I can lose the next argument to you Leave the light on. I am not done [chorus] I'm coming home, leave the light on I can say your name out loud I'm coming home, leave the light on Set a bowl beside the bed for me I'm coming home, leave the light on I can say your name out loud I'm coming home, leave the light on Set a bowl beside the bed for me [outro] I'm coming home, leave the light on The war is quieter than expected I am still shouting inside my ribs I am still here. Wait up for me

[intro] Don't take my spears, I need them They lean on the tent pole My fingers stay on the wraps Don't take my spears, I need them [verse] I ran the ridge until I bled Bain caught my wrist before I struck Chiad slept across the tent flap They taught me quiet with a look Dailin lay wounded on the ground I held her spears and called for help Nynaeve brought her back from dying I thought we always would run together [pre-chorus] Amys held her palm out for them Bair did not raise her voice They said the work has changed now They said the spears stay here [chorus] Don't take my spears, they're all I know I earned my name by how they land Don't take my spears, they're all I know Without them I do not know myself Don't take my spears, they're all I know I earned my name by how they land Don't take my spears, they're all I know Without them I do not know myself [post-chorus] Don't take my spears from me tonight I can throw them in the dark Don't take my spears from me tonight Give me one more hour of weight [verse] I laid them down because they asked My fingers stuck to the leather Chiad said one word, then stopped Bain would not look at me at all I walked out without the shafts My hands kept reaching at my sides The cadin'sor still fit this morning It will not mean the same tonight [pre-chorus] Amys held her palm out for them Bair did not raise her voice They said the work has changed now They said the spears stay here [chorus] Don't take my spears, they're all I know I earned my name by how they land Don't take my spears, they're all I know Without them I do not know myself Don't take my spears, they're all I know I earned my name by how they land Don't take my spears, they're all I know Without them I do not know myself [post-chorus] Don't take my spears from me tonight I can throw them in the dark Don't take my spears from me tonight Give me one more hour of weight [bridge] I am afraid of sitting still I am afraid of being asked I know how a spear should answer I do not know this other work Take them and I have no proof Take them and the sisters fade I wanted them to argue once They only waited for my hands [chorus] Don't take my spears, they're all I know I earned my name by how they land Don't take my spears, they're all I know Without them I do not know myself Don't take my spears, they're all I know I earned my name by how they land Don't take my spears, they're all I know Without them I do not know myself [outro] Don't take my spears, they're all I know I set them down and still reach Don't take my spears, they're all I know Let me pick them up at dawn

[intro] Stop smiling, wetlander, I said stop You look at me like I might stay Stop smiling, wetlander, I said stop I did not give you that right [verse] You spilled some water on the stone I watched it vanish in the dust I gave you not a single word You smiled like I had thanked you You stand too close when you talk You wait when I turn away I called you wetlander to your face You smiled and said it back [pre-chorus] I know the word I meant by it It is not a name for kindness You should have taken the insult You should not look so pleased [chorus] Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now You look at me like this is welcome Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now Your kindness makes my hands go wrong Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now You look at me like this is welcome Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now Your kindness makes my hands go wrong [post-chorus] Stop smiling, wetlander, I still see you I am not made for that look Stop smiling, wetlander, I still see you Go stand where I cannot watch [verse] You asked if I had eaten yet A Maiden carries her own food You held the flap so I could pass I could have moved it myself Rain sat on Cairhien all day You talked like the wet was nothing I kept my face as still as sand You smiled anyway, and I looked back [pre-chorus] I know the word I meant by it It is not a name for kindness You should have taken the insult You should not look so pleased [chorus] Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now You look at me like this is welcome Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now Your kindness makes my hands go wrong Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now You look at me like this is welcome Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now Your kindness makes my hands go wrong [post-chorus] Stop smiling, wetlander, I still see you I am not made for that look Stop smiling, wetlander, I still see you Go stand where I cannot watch [bridge] I watch your mouth when you turn I hate that I wait for it Amys says nothing when I speak She used to nod; she does not I will not go soft in this I say that hard to myself If you stop, I will miss it That is the shame I keep [chorus] Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now You look at me like this is welcome Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now Your kindness makes my hands go wrong Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now You look at me like this is welcome Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now Your kindness makes my hands go wrong [outro] Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now You make a simple insult fail Stop smiling, wetlander, stop doing that now I cannot keep my eyes off you

[intro] I owe you, let me pay it You keep adding to the weight I owe you, let me pay it Do not be kind to me again [verse] You gave a bracelet for my wrist You said it only meant your thanks The Maidens smiled behind their hands I turned the ivory out of sight I named the debt out loud at dusk You shrugged as if it were nothing I hate a gift I cannot match Stand still and let me settle it [pre-chorus] Do not tell me it is nothing Nothing still sits on my back Bring the debt where I can see it I will meet it with both hands [chorus] I owe you, let me pay it Do not put another kindness down I owe you, let me pay it I cannot sleep while this still sits I owe you, let me pay it Do not put another kindness down I owe you, let me pay it I cannot sleep while this still sits [post-chorus] I owe you, let me pay it Name the thing, I will do it I owe you, let me pay it Stop walking off with it unpaid [verse] I brought a sword to settle this I laid it down between us both You took the blade and left the jewels You made the reckoning worse again You looked tired and almost kind That look makes paying you much harder I stood until my knees went stiff You told me to sit. I would not [pre-chorus] Do not tell me it is nothing Nothing still sits on my back Bring the debt where I can see it I will meet it with both hands [chorus] I owe you, let me pay it Do not put another kindness down I owe you, let me pay it I cannot sleep while this still sits I owe you, let me pay it Do not put another kindness down I owe you, let me pay it I cannot sleep while this still sits [post-chorus] I owe you, let me pay it Name the thing, I will do it I owe you, let me pay it Stop walking off with it unpaid [bridge] If I pay it, you might stop That is the thought I hide I want that bracelet on my wrist I want you waiting at the flap I call it toh so I can stay Keep coming back, you foolish man I need you in the doorway still I'm finding reasons you should stay [chorus] I owe you, let me pay it Do not put another kindness down I owe you, let me pay it I cannot sleep while this still sits I owe you, let me pay it Do not put another kindness down I owe you, let me pay it I cannot sleep while this still sits [outro] I owe you, let me pay it here Do not be kind to me again I owe you, let me pay it here Come back tomorrow; I will wait

[intro] We carried no spears, we carried no spears Our hands were open in the dust We carried no spears, we carried no spears I came out shaking from the glass [verse] Glass showed me hands that looked like mine A wagon creaking through the green We sang and would not raise a hand We kept our promise through the hunger Then children cried beside the road And empty hands could not defend them I saw the price of learning violence I saw the price of keeping peace [pre-chorus] I reached for shafts that were not there My palms still wanted a bowl The columns kept showing open hands Then hands that learned to kill [chorus] We carried no spears, we carried no spears Our hands were built to hold a bowl We carried no spears, we carried no spears We took up what we had sworn against We carried no spears, we carried no spears Our hands were built to hold a bowl We carried no spears, we carried no spears We took up what we had sworn against [post-chorus] We carried no spears, then we did The same hands filled the skins We carried no spears, then we did I cannot turn away from those faces [verse] Jenn kept the oath and they are gone Only their tree still stands in Rhuidean We broke the covenant and lived We kept the name and lost the vow I came out. Women held the cup The water trembled in the bowl I drank because they told me to I kept my place and did not speak [pre-chorus] I reached for shafts that were not there My palms still wanted a bowl The columns kept showing open hands Then hands that learned to kill [chorus] We carried no spears, we carried no spears Our hands were built to hold a bowl We carried no spears, we carried no spears We took up what we had sworn against We carried no spears, we carried no spears Our hands were built to hold a bowl We carried no spears, we carried no spears We took up what we had sworn against [post-chorus] We carried no spears, then we did The same hands filled the skins We carried no spears, then we did I cannot turn away from those faces [bridge] The columns would not let me blink I needed my people to be clean White cloth showed through the dust I knew those hands; they look like mine We learned the spear to stay alive We called the killing honor afterward I come from people who broke their promise I cannot make that promise whole [chorus] We carried no spears, we carried no spears Our hands were built to hold a bowl We carried no spears, we carried no spears We took up what we had sworn against We carried no spears, we carried no spears Our hands were built to hold a bowl We carried no spears, we carried no spears We took up what we had sworn against [outro] We carried no spears, we carried no spears I go on carrying water anyway We carried no spears, we carried no spears I know now what our spears have cost

[intro] Ask me, I'll answer for it here The shawl is on; the spears are gone Ask me, I'll answer for it here I am done waiting to be told [verse] Amys sat an hour and won I wanted a command to obey Bair poured tea and watched my hands I waited for the right order I tied the shawl the way they showed It sat too light on my shoulders I asked what work they needed done They told me I would have to say [pre-chorus] You leave the cup, you let me sit You will not say I am ready Silence is the test, I know I want someone else to choose [chorus] Ask me, I'll answer for it here Do not decide my work in silence Ask me, I'll answer for it here I will stand in what I choose Ask me, I'll answer for it here Do not decide my work in silence Ask me, I'll answer for it here I will stand in what I choose [post-chorus] Ask me, I'll answer for it now The cost sits here; I keep it Ask me, I'll answer for it now I am not waiting for a command [verse] I held a flame until it shook Melaine said stop, then said go on I chose stop and took her look That look is mine to carry now The Maidens know the road I chose I still can hear them in the tents I count the room and pick a side I say it loud enough to keep [pre-chorus] You leave the cup, you let me sit You will not say I am ready Silence is the test, I know I want someone else to choose [chorus] Ask me, I'll answer for it here Do not decide my work in silence Ask me, I'll answer for it here I will stand in what I choose Ask me, I'll answer for it here Do not decide my work in silence Ask me, I'll answer for it here I will stand in what I choose [post-chorus] Ask me, I'll answer for it now The cost sits here; I keep it Ask me, I'll answer for it now I am not waiting for a command [bridge] I liked being told the next step I liked the clean weight of a spear Judgment has no shaft to follow If I am wrong, my people pay I am proud of that weight I am sick with it too Ask me anyway. I will not hide I will decide and bear the answer [chorus] Ask me, I'll answer for it here Do not decide my work in silence Ask me, I'll answer for it here I will stand in what I choose Ask me, I'll answer for it here Do not decide my work in silence Ask me, I'll answer for it here I will stand in what I choose [outro] Ask me, I'll answer for it here I take the work and keep the cost Ask me, I'll answer for it here Pour the tea. I will speak first

[intro] Say my name before you say his I am standing in this room Say my name before you say his I did not come here as a title [verse] A wetlander called me his woman He did not look at my face Elayne's mouth went thin, then she laughed Min raised both brows and waited I love him. I will not pretend I refuse to walk in his shadow I have my sept and my own sisters Say Aviendha if you need a word [pre-chorus] He is the Car'a'carn, I know I chose him with my own mouth Elayne chose him. Min did too We did not vanish when he entered [chorus] Say my name before you say his Call me Aviendha when I enter here Say my name before you say his I chose him; that is still my choosing Say my name before you say his Call me Aviendha when I enter here Say my name before you say his I chose him; that is still my choosing [post-chorus] Say my name before you say his I share him; I remain in the room Say my name before you say his My people still come to me first [verse] Elayne took my hand beside the fire We said the words that made us sisters Min told me what she already saw I sat and heard her through He asked what I wanted then I wanted him and my own name I still want a word that is mine I want night air on my face [pre-chorus] He is the Car'a'carn, I know I chose him with my own mouth Elayne chose him. Min did too We did not vanish when he entered [chorus] Say my name before you say his Call me Aviendha when I enter here Say my name before you say his I chose him; that is still my choosing Say my name before you say his Call me Aviendha when I enter here Say my name before you say his I chose him; that is still my choosing [post-chorus] Say my name before you say his I share him; I remain in the room Say my name before you say his My people still come to me first [bridge] I like hearing that I am his That is the shame I keep I put my hand on his chest I still need the name said first Wetlanders point and call me his Maidens look at me and wait I will love him in the open I arrive as myself, then his [chorus] Say my name before you say his Call me Aviendha when I enter here Say my name before you say his I chose him; that is still my choosing Say my name before you say his Call me Aviendha when I enter here Say my name before you say his I chose him; that is still my choosing [outro] Say my name before you say his Say Aviendha, then the rest can follow Say my name before you say his I am here as myself and his

[intro] I saw our children disappear from us The holds stood empty in the sun I saw our children disappear from us I walked out to break that future [verse] I had already walked the columns I turned and entered them again I put my palm against the glass The years ran forward through my blood I watched the chains close on our wrists I heard the wells cough up dust A Seanchan banner took our ridge I came out tasting metal fear [pre-chorus] Amys asked me what I saw I told the truth and kept the rest She poured tea and did not blink She asked what I would change [chorus] I saw our children disappear from us The wells were dry, the holds were gone I saw our children disappear from us I came back out to change that road I saw our children disappear from us The wells were dry, the holds were gone I saw our children disappear from us I came back out to change that road [post-chorus] I saw our children disappear from us I will not leave that picture there I saw our children disappear from us This day still answers to my hands [verse] The sun was where I left it What I had seen was not yet certain Our choices could still change those years Our children need us to decide I do not tell the Maidens yet I do not lay this on him yet Rhuidean is behind me and not done Twice through the glass, the years ran forward [pre-chorus] Amys asked me what I saw I told the truth and kept the rest She poured tea and did not blink She asked what I would change [chorus] I saw our children disappear from us The wells were dry, the holds were gone I saw our children disappear from us I came back out to change that road I saw our children disappear from us The wells were dry, the holds were gone I saw our children disappear from us I came back out to change that road [post-chorus] I saw our children disappear from us I will not leave that picture there I saw our children disappear from us This day still answers to my hands [bridge] What I carry will not sit quiet I cannot bear to name the years If I speak it, it might harden If I stay quiet, it might come Empty holds, the septs all gone A man counts water in his palm I asked her what to do with this She asked what I would choose [chorus] I saw our children disappear from us The wells were dry, the holds were gone I saw our children disappear from us I came back out to change that road I saw our children disappear from us The wells were dry, the holds were gone I saw our children disappear from us I came back out to change that road [outro] I saw our children disappear from us I walk back into this hot day I saw our children disappear from us I will spend my life to stop it

[intro] I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight My feet will not obey me I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight Keep me covered; I still have work [verse] We waited under a blackened sky I stood with Wise Ones, counting breaths Graendal sends our own against us Rhuarc comes with murder in his eyes Her will has taken him from us I have to kill him where he stands I cannot stop to mourn him yet I turn to face the woman pulling him [pre-chorus] Lift me if I cannot stand now Keep the wounded from the open fire I have people still to answer for I have children still to bear yet [chorus] I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight My feet will not obey me now I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight Hold me up; I am not done I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight My feet will not obey me now I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight Hold me up; I am not done [post-chorus] I'm hurt, I'm here, don't take me I can still work from my knees I'm hurt, I'm here, don't take me Leave the cup; I have to drink [verse] My feet are ruined in the stone I drag myself and grip the flows Her spell comes reaching for my mind I pick apart the gateway weave The blast throws her own spell back The woman hunting me obeys I will not die in this field Bring water. I still have to drink [pre-chorus] Lift me if I cannot stand now Keep the wounded from the open fire I have people still to answer for I have children still to bear yet [chorus] I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight My feet will not obey me now I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight Hold me up; I am not done I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight My feet will not obey me now I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight Hold me up; I am not done [post-chorus] I'm hurt, I'm here, don't take me I can still work from my knees I'm hurt, I'm here, don't take me Leave the cup; I have to drink [bridge] Quiet. I took it for the end My mouth was full of ash Then the light changed on us I asked my legs for one more step They would not move; I asked for help I let myself be carried out I am not too proud to take it I am too angry to lie down [chorus] I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight My feet will not obey me now I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight Hold me up; I am not done I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight My feet will not obey me now I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight Hold me up; I am not done [outro] I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight There will be water; someone will pour I'm hurt, I'm here, I can still fight Carry me home; I am still here

[intro] More, more I wanted more More, more What is a limit for? [verse] Beidomon, I found it, come and see A power you could draw as well as me No choosing sides, no splitting it in two No end to what the two of us could do I checked the figures till the morning came I pictured every mouth saying my name You said we ought to wait another day I had my hands on it, I couldn't wait [pre-chorus] One more layer, one more try I can feel it on the other side One more layer, one more try Why would I stop when I'm this close? Why? [chorus] More, more, I wanted more I tore a hole where there wasn't a door More, more, I wanted more Now something's looking back through the Bore More, more, I wanted more I tore a hole where there wasn't a door More, more, I wanted more Now something's looking back through the Bore [post-chorus] I opened it I opened it Something on the other side I opened it [verse] The Sharom split and black fire filled the sky You grabbed my arm, I couldn't tell you why The floor came up, the windows all blew out Your lips were moving, I could see you shout We thought we'd found a power we could share We made a hole in what had kept it there I didn't know a prison had a seam I still hear people screaming when I dream [pre-chorus] One more layer, one more try I can feel it on the other side One more layer, one more try Why would I stop when I'm this close? Why? [chorus] More, more, I wanted more I tore a hole where there wasn't a door More, more, I wanted more Now something's looking back through the Bore More, more, I wanted more I tore a hole where there wasn't a door More, more, I wanted more Now something's looking back through the Bore [bridge] Don't touch my hands, they're shaking Don't tell me what we let inside I thought the dark was empty Why does it feel alive? I should be begging you to close it I should be running for the door Beidomon, there's something wrong with me I'm still wondering if there's more [chorus] More, more, I wanted more I tore a hole where there wasn't a door More, more, I wanted more Now something's looking back through the Bore More, more, I wanted more I tore a hole where there wasn't a door More, more, I wanted more Now something's looking back through the Bore [outro] More, more I wanted more I opened it What is a limit for?

[intro] Say my name Say my name Lanfear Say my name [verse] Mierin waited for the room to turn Mierin waited for the name she'd earned You walked in and they all stood up for you I wanted them to stand when I walked in too I stood before the Hall and chose my side I said it loud, I didn't run and hide You keep the name that made me wait outside I chose the one that keeps you up at night [pre-chorus] You heard me, say it back Louder, all the way to the back You heard me, say it right I'm the Daughter of the Night [chorus] Lanfear, Lanfear, say my name Daughter of the Night, I chose it, let it stay Lanfear, Lanfear, say my name Let me hear you say it till you're shaking Lanfear, Lanfear, say my name Daughter of the Night, I chose it, let it stay Lanfear, Lanfear, say my name Let me hear you say it till you're shaking [post-chorus] Say my name Say my name Say it like you're scared of me Say my name [verse] You close your eyes, I know where you have gone I move a wall, you find the hallway long You turn to run, the door is somewhere new You wake up with the name I gave to you The other Chosen think I'll take my place And wait until they let me show my face I didn't come this far to bow my head I'll make them move or step on them instead [pre-chorus] You heard me, say it back Louder, all the way to the back You heard me, say it right I'm the Daughter of the Night [chorus] Lanfear, Lanfear, say my name Daughter of the Night, I chose it, let it stay Lanfear, Lanfear, say my name Let me hear you say it till you're shaking Lanfear, Lanfear, say my name Daughter of the Night, I chose it, let it stay Lanfear, Lanfear, say my name Let me hear you say it till you're shaking [bridge] Lews Therin, you still call me Mierin You say it like you knew me yesterday I make a room go quiet when I enter You say one word and take the room away Say the name I chose, you heard me Why won't you say the name I chose? [chorus] Lanfear, Lanfear, say my name Daughter of the Night, I chose it, let it stay Lanfear, Lanfear, say my name Let me hear you say it till you're shaking Lanfear, Lanfear, say my name Daughter of the Night, I chose it, let it stay Lanfear, Lanfear, say my name Let me hear you say it till you're shaking [outro] Say my name Say my name Lews Therin, are you listening? Say my name

[intro] You were mine You were mine I still reach for you at night You were mine [verse] Lews Therin, I remember how you'd stay And miss whatever took you out that day I used to wake up underneath your arm And turn toward you while the bed was warm I lie there now and try to get it right The way you'd breathe before you said goodnight I used to think I'd never lose the sound I shut my eyes and try to hear it now [pre-chorus] I know you left, I know you chose I know the answer, I know, I know But when I dream you change your mind And I wake up reaching every time [chorus] You were mine, Lews Therin, you were mine I still reach for you on the empty side You were mine, come back to me tonight I miss you more than I can stand to hide You were mine, Lews Therin, you were mine I still reach for you on the empty side You were mine, come back to me tonight I miss you more than I can stand to hide [post-chorus] Come back to me Come back to me Just until the morning Come back to me [verse] I heard how soft you said Ilyena's name I waited for you to say mine that way I hated her for getting you to smile Then hated that I'd watched you all that while Now there's another face around your eyes You look at me and don't know what was mine I almost say the thing I used to say Then stop before you ask me to explain [pre-chorus] I know you left, I know you chose I know the answer, I know, I know But when I dream you change your mind And I wake up reaching every time [chorus] You were mine, Lews Therin, you were mine I still reach for you on the empty side You were mine, come back to me tonight I miss you more than I can stand to hide You were mine, Lews Therin, you were mine I still reach for you on the empty side You were mine, come back to me tonight I miss you more than I can stand to hide [bridge] I can make you meet me in a dream I can make you reach across the bed I can make your mouth say that you love me I can't make it something that you meant I leave a place beside me anyway Lews Therin, I don't know another way [chorus] You were mine, Lews Therin, you were mine I still reach for you on the empty side You were mine, come back to me tonight I miss you more than I can stand to hide You were mine, Lews Therin, you were mine I still reach for you on the empty side You were mine, come back to me tonight I miss you more than I can stand to hide [outro] You were mine You were mine I still sleep on my side You were mine

[intro] Selene Call me Selene You don't have to know me Call me Selene [verse] Rand, give me your hand and help me down You blush when I say thank you, look at you now You ask me if I'm hurt, I say I'm fine And keep your hand a little longer inside mine You tell me you're a shepherd, nothing more I tell you what a king would take you for You laugh and shake your head and look away I move a little closer when you say my name [pre-chorus] You don't know, you don't know How long I've waited to stand this close You don't know, you don't know And I'm not ready for you to know [chorus] Call me Selene, Rand, call me Selene You could have the whole world if you'd listen to me Call me Selene, Rand, stay here with me You can be a great man, I can be your dream Call me Selene, Rand, call me Selene You could have the whole world if you'd listen to me Call me Selene, Rand, stay here with me You can be a great man, I can be your dream [post-chorus] Selene, Selene Say it while you're looking at me Selene, Selene Stay a little longer with me [verse] The Horn is in your hands, you wrap it tight You talk about your friends again tonight I tell you what that Horn could make you be You ask if they'll be safe, then look at me You brush a little dust off of my sleeve You do it like you have no cause to fear me For half a breath I like the way you ask Then pull you back to all the things you could have [pre-chorus] You don't know, you don't know How long I've waited to stand this close You don't know, you don't know And I'm not ready for you to know [chorus] Call me Selene, Rand, call me Selene You could have the whole world if you'd listen to me Call me Selene, Rand, stay here with me You can be a great man, I can be your dream Call me Selene, Rand, call me Selene You could have the whole world if you'd listen to me Call me Selene, Rand, stay here with me You can be a great man, I can be your dream [bridge] I nearly call you by the other name You turn your head, I say it once again Rand, I said Rand, of course I know Why would I call you someone long ago? Come here and let me fix your collar There, that's better, stay a little longer [chorus] Call me Selene, Rand, call me Selene You could have the whole world if you'd listen to me Call me Selene, Rand, stay here with me You can be a great man, I can be your dream Call me Selene, Rand, call me Selene You could have the whole world if you'd listen to me Call me Selene, Rand, stay here with me You can be a great man, I can be your dream [outro] Selene Call me Selene Say it while you still don't know What you mean to me

[intro] Which one? Which one? Kadere, say it again Which one? [verse] Kadere, you said he had a woman You said it like I'd want the news You look so pleased to have an answer I'd stop that smiling if I were you I tear the wagon into splinters And let the people run for shore Lews Therin, come and face me Who have you been reaching for? [pre-chorus] You stand between me and the girls You tell me I should calm myself You stand between me and the girls You used to stand that close to me [chorus] Which one, Lews Therin, which one was it? Which one did you take into your bed? Which one, Lews Therin, which one was it? Tell me while you still can, say it again Which one, Lews Therin, which one was it? Which one did you take into your bed? Which one, Lews Therin, which one was it? Tell me while you still can, say it again [post-chorus] Which one? Look at me Which one? You used to look at me [verse] You cut my weave, I pull it tighter You reach for them, I make you fall The dark-haired girl is screaming I lift her higher through it all You say Ilyena like a warning As if her name could stop my hands She's dead and still you put her first I'm here and you won't look at me [pre-chorus] You stand between me and the girls You tell me I should calm myself You stand between me and the girls You used to stand that close to me [chorus] Which one, Lews Therin, which one was it? Which one did you take into your bed? Which one, Lews Therin, which one was it? Tell me while you still can, say it again Which one, Lews Therin, which one was it? Which one did you take into your bed? Which one, Lews Therin, which one was it? Tell me while you still can, say it again [bridge] Mierin, now you call me Mierin Now that you want me to let go You wouldn't say it when I asked you You wouldn't stay, you wouldn't hold me You want me gentle for their sake You should have seen me when I waited [chorus] Which one, Lews Therin, which one was it? Which one did you take into your bed? Which one, Lews Therin, which one was it? Tell me while you still can, say it again Which one, Lews Therin, which one was it? Which one did you take into your bed? Which one, Lews Therin, which one was it? Tell me while you still can, say it again [outro] Which one? Look at me Which one? Lews Therin, look at me

[intro] Let me out Let me out I was just there Let me out [verse] Moiraine, I didn't see you move Your hand is on the bracelet, then on me Your shoulder drives me through the red stone frame I try to turn, there's nothing for my feet The doorway burns behind us as we fall I reach for where the daylight used to be Lews Therin, I was standing right in front of you How can you stay there when you can't see me? [pre-chorus] Open it again Put it back the way it was Open it again Somebody tell me what it costs [chorus] Let me out, let me out, open the doorway I was in the world a little while ago Let me out, let me out, open the doorway I can hear you laughing, let me go Let me out, let me out, open the doorway I was in the world a little while ago Let me out, let me out, open the doorway I can hear you laughing, let me go [post-chorus] Let me out Let me out I said let me out Can you hear me now? [verse] The ones who live here gather when I draw I pull in more, their faces turn to mine They feed on what I thought would burn them I feel it leaving, little at a time I tell them who I am, they move in closer I tell them what I'll do, they let me try I used to make men kneel by looking at them Now I can't make one of them step aside [pre-chorus] Open it again Put it back the way it was Open it again Somebody tell me what it costs [chorus] Let me out, let me out, open the doorway I was in the world a little while ago Let me out, let me out, open the doorway I can hear you laughing, let me go Let me out, let me out, open the doorway I was in the world a little while ago Let me out, let me out, open the doorway I can hear you laughing, let me go [bridge] I used to want the door wide open I used to reach for what was there Now I'm begging for the world I came from And something has its fingers in my hair Take what's left, take whatever Leave me just enough to get away Open it, I said I'll give you anything Listen to me, I said anything [chorus] Let me out, let me out, open the doorway I was in the world a little while ago Let me out, let me out, open the doorway I can hear you laughing, let me go Let me out, let me out, open the doorway I was in the world a little while ago Let me out, let me out, open the doorway I can hear you laughing, let me go [outro] Let me out Let me out I was just there Let me out

[intro] One more chance One more chance I can make him want me One more chance [verse] I lift my hand, the woman lifts hers too Her hair is pale, her eyes are stranger blue I reach for power, less than I could hold I look into the glass and feel the cold Moridin turns the crystal in his hand He doesn't have to tell me where I stand They call me Cyndane, say it means last chance I learn how much it hurts when he commands [pre-chorus] Let me reach him when he's sleeping Let me get him on his own He loved me once, I know he loved me I can make him bring me home [chorus] One more chance, Lews Therin, one more chance I can still be everything you wanted One more chance, Lews Therin, take my hand Don't leave me here with what I have become One more chance, Lews Therin, one more chance I can still be everything you wanted One more chance, Lews Therin, take my hand Don't leave me here with what I have become [post-chorus] One more chance One more chance You would know me anywhere Give me one more chance [verse] I find you sleeping, let you see me cry I tell you what they do and watch your eyes I know the words that used to make you stay I use them all, you hear me all the way You ask what I would give up to be free I thought you'd come and take the hurt from me You wait for me to say what I would change I reach for you and ask you once again [pre-chorus] Let me reach him when he's sleeping Let me get him on his own He loved me once, I know he loved me I can make him bring me home [chorus] One more chance, Lews Therin, one more chance I can still be everything you wanted One more chance, Lews Therin, take my hand Don't leave me here with what I have become One more chance, Lews Therin, one more chance I can still be everything you wanted One more chance, Lews Therin, take my hand Don't leave me here with what I have become [bridge] I came prepared to say I need you I came prepared to bend my knees I thought that would be all you wanted You want me to give up being me I almost say I'll do it I almost let the promise out Then I remember wanting everything And I can't get the words out of my mouth [chorus] One more chance, Lews Therin, one more chance I can still be everything you wanted One more chance, Lews Therin, take my hand Don't leave me here with what I have become One more chance, Lews Therin, one more chance I can still be everything you wanted One more chance, Lews Therin, take my hand Don't leave me here with what I have become [outro] One more chance One more chance If he won't come and get me I'll find another way

[intro] Tell them I'm dead Tell them I'm dead Perrin, you saw it yourself Tell them I'm dead [verse] Perrin, when the fighting ends, they'll hunt me If the Shadow wins, I know what waits I've betrayed too many of my masters And the Light won't let me walk away You want to keep the people you love breathing You want to go back home and find your wife I need someone the Dragon will believe in To tell him I am finished for all time [pre-chorus] You would never lie to Rand He knows the kind of man you are You would never lie to Rand That's why it has to be your hands [chorus] Tell them I'm dead, Perrin, tell them I'm dead Tell them that you stopped me, that you broke my neck Tell them I'm dead, Perrin, tell them I'm dead If they all believe you, I can live with that Tell them I'm dead, Perrin, tell them I'm dead Tell them that you stopped me, that you broke my neck Tell them I'm dead, Perrin, tell them I'm dead If they all believe you, I can live with that [post-chorus] You saw it yourself You saw it yourself Why would you doubt it? You saw it yourself [verse] I tell you we will strike the women kneeling Moiraine for you, Nynaeve for me I let you feel the pull of my Compulsion Then let you think you've torn it all away You think of Faile, feel your own will waking You think you've found the thing I couldn't take I need you certain that you saved them, Perrin I need you certain that you felt me break [pre-chorus] You would never lie to Rand He knows the kind of man you are You would never lie to Rand That's why it has to be your hands [chorus] Tell them I'm dead, Perrin, tell them I'm dead Tell them that you stopped me, that you broke my neck Tell them I'm dead, Perrin, tell them I'm dead If they all believe you, I can live with that Tell them I'm dead, Perrin, tell them I'm dead Tell them that you stopped me, that you broke my neck Tell them I'm dead, Perrin, tell them I'm dead If they all believe you, I can live with that [bridge] Once I wanted every mouth to name me Now I need them sure I've gone away Lews Therin, let them tell you that it's over Let him tell you how he made me pay I'll miss the way you used to say Mierin But I can learn to live without the sound Let the dreamer die inside the story I'll be somewhere else when you look down [chorus] Tell them I'm dead, Perrin, tell them I'm dead Tell them that you stopped me, that you broke my neck Tell them I'm dead, Perrin, tell them I'm dead If they all believe you, I can live with that Tell them I'm dead, Perrin, tell them I'm dead Tell them that you stopped me, that you broke my neck Tell them I'm dead, Perrin, tell them I'm dead If they all believe you, I can live with that [outro] Tell them I'm dead Tell them I'm dead I can live with that Tell them I'm dead

[intro] You pour wine and wait for me That easy look across the cup I know that smile, I've used it too Keep talking, I am listening close [verse] I take the chair that faces both doors I rest the harp across my knee You laugh too late and cover it Your cousin's name sits in your mouth I ask about the harvest, lightly You answer grain and mean a vote The servant's hand shakes on the jug You catch me watching that small shake [pre-chorus] This used to be a pleasant game A sealed note changing hands at dusk Now someone waits behind that door And lives or dies on what I say [chorus] I know that smile, I've used it too You think I came here just to play I know that smile, I've used it too Don't make me choose who walks away I know that smile, I've used it too You think I came here just to play I know that smile, I've used it too Don't make me choose who walks away [post-chorus] I know that smile, I've used it too I keep my own behind the harp If I look kind, you look twice I sell the laugh and keep the rest [verse] You lean in close and name a House I nod as if I never heard I drink and joke and miss a string You call the miss my clumsiness A boy still waits out in the hall He brought a note that could expose you If I betray him, you will kill him I will not give you what you want [pre-chorus] This used to be a pleasant game A sealed note changing hands at dusk Now someone waits behind that door And lives or dies on what I say [chorus] I know that smile, I've used it too You think I came here just to play I know that smile, I've used it too Don't make me choose who walks away I know that smile, I've used it too You think I came here just to play I know that smile, I've used it too Don't make me choose who walks away [post-chorus] I know that smile, I've used it too I keep my own behind the harp If I look kind, you look twice I sell the laugh and keep the rest [bridge] I like this table, that is worse I like how a lie sits well I told myself I only watched I told myself I hurt no one A word from me can empty chairs I used to find that almost funny Tonight the funny part ran out I want the door more than the wine [chorus] I know that smile, I've used it too You think I came here just to play I know that smile, I've used it too Don't make me choose who walks away I know that smile, I've used it too You think I came here just to play I know that smile, I've used it too Don't make me choose who walks away [outro] I know that smile, I've used it too Leave the cup and take the door I won't name that boy for you Smile once more, then let him walk

[intro] By the time the news had found me You had already needed me for years Owyn, I should have been there I keep arriving when it is too late [verse] Three years you kept the secret to yourself I had a place beside a queen I did not know what you were carrying I did not see the fear you hid When word came I left the palace I took the road to bring you help The miles ran out; I asked for you There was no living boy to answer [pre-chorus] Red sisters walked your muddy yard They called you out into the sun They gentled you and left you empty You sat there staring at the dirt [chorus] Owyn, I should have been there You needed me and I was far away Owyn, I should have been there I came to help and came too late Owyn, I should have been there You needed me and I was far away Owyn, I should have been there I came to help and came too late [post-chorus] Owyn, I should have been there I still look for your face in crowds I carry news that cannot change I cannot make too late mean anything else [verse] They turned you out when word went round Your wife went with you into exile Within a month you both were gone I keep on asking who let that happen I stood in a queen's bright room And brought my rage through every doorway We shouted till there was no taking back I lost that home and still had lost you [pre-chorus] Red sisters walked your muddy yard They called you out into the sun They gentled you and left you empty You sat there staring at the dirt [chorus] Owyn, I should have been there You needed me and I was far away Owyn, I should have been there I came to help and came too late Owyn, I should have been there You needed me and I was far away Owyn, I should have been there I came to help and came too late [post-chorus] Owyn, I should have been there I still look for your face in crowds I carry news that cannot change I cannot make too late mean anything else [bridge] I hated every shawl in red I made that hate a kind of work It kept me from the helpless thought That getting there might not have saved you I need to think I could have changed it I need one thing that I could do I help the boys who cross my road And still I cannot get to you [chorus] Owyn, I should have been there You needed me and I was far away Owyn, I should have been there I came to help and came too late Owyn, I should have been there You needed me and I was far away Owyn, I should have been there I came to help and came too late [outro] Owyn, I should have been there I say your name into the dark No blade can give me back that chance I live with that, and with your laugh

[intro] The room is tight, the lamps burn low You keep your backs against the wall Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at Hang your coats, I'll take the floor [verse] You came in shaking from the road A child is crying in the corner Somebody dropped a cup and jumped I spread the cloak across the chair I stamp my boots to take the floor I crack a line about the mud You almost smile, then look away I start the tune before you leave [pre-chorus] Don't ask how I slept last night Don't ask who I failed to save You paid for noise and a warm hour I mean to give you both [chorus] Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at I need your laughing in this room Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at If you go quiet I might stop Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at I need your laughing in this room Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at If you go quiet I might stop [post-chorus] Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at I sew the hem and keep the grin The cloak is how I do this I wear it so you can sit [verse] I tell the Hunt the way you like I let the filthy story land You slap the table, call for more I drink the ale you push toward me Under the cloak my hands are cold I count the door and the knives I keep the grief behind my teeth I throw my head back for the rhyme [pre-chorus] Don't ask how I slept last night Don't ask who I failed to save You paid for noise and a warm hour I mean to give you both [chorus] Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at I need your laughing in this room Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at If you go quiet I might stop Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at I need your laughing in this room Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at If you go quiet I might stop [post-chorus] Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at I sew the hem and keep the grin The cloak is how I do this I wear it so you can sit [bridge] If I take the cloak off now I am a thin man in a room I talk to people who are gone I wait for letters that don't come The laugh is how I stay upright I'm ashamed how much I need it Don't thank me when you leave I did this so I would not break [chorus] Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at I need your laughing in this room Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at If you go quiet I might stop Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at I need your laughing in this room Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at If you go quiet I might stop [outro] Laugh now, I'll give you something to laugh at One more verse, then you can sleep I'll pack the cloak and go Keep the laugh I left with you

[intro] The side door takes Caemlyn rain I shut it without looking back You were a woman before you were a queen I keep that as I leave [verse] I played your hall five winters running You listened with your chin in hand I showed off for that quiet look You let me stay past sense and rank Then word of Owyn reached the palace I left to help and came back grieving We tore each other open with our anger You ordered me away; I took my case [pre-chorus] I waited for a hand upon my sleeve Your throne had work I could not share I stood one extra night in the passage Dawn came, I lifted the case [chorus] You were a woman before you were a queen I sat too close, I learned late You were a woman before you were a queen I still want the woman you were You were a woman before you were a queen I sat too close, I learned late You were a woman before you were a queen I still want the woman you were [post-chorus] You were a woman before you were a queen I keep your laugh for myself A pretty tale would cheapen you I will not hold you that way [verse] They bring me news in muddy towns They say smooth talkers took your court I wonder if you sleep at all I wonder who can make you laugh I have not seen you since that quarrel The years have changed us both by now I hope there is a room without a throne Where someone asks what you would like [pre-chorus] I waited for a hand upon my sleeve Your throne had work I could not share I stood one extra night in the passage Dawn came, I lifted the case [chorus] You were a woman before you were a queen I sat too close, I learned late You were a woman before you were a queen I still want the woman you were You were a woman before you were a queen I sat too close, I learned late You were a woman before you were a queen I still want the woman you were [post-chorus] You were a woman before you were a queen I keep your laugh for myself A pretty tale would cheapen you I will not hold you that way [bridge] If you had crooked one finger I would have shamed myself and stayed I keep your name out of the hat I will not sell you for a coin The rain of Andor beats against my coat I still set a chair your way I get angry at your silence Then I remember you had no room [chorus] You were a woman before you were a queen I sat too close, I learned late You were a woman before you were a queen I still want the woman you were You were a woman before you were a queen I sat too close, I learned late You were a woman before you were a queen I still want the woman you were [outro] You were a woman before you were a queen I failed the man I was for you Keep the fire, keep the hard chair I loved you better than I stayed

[intro] Keep walking, do not turn your head Laugh like I told a filthy joke I saw the knife before you did Let me take the man in the dark [verse] I palm a blade while tuning up The crowd stares at my fingers only I learned that trade in dirtier rooms It still sits easy in my wrist The harp case hides a folded cloth I check it when the gate-bell rings You three still talk about the road I listen past you, down the alley [pre-chorus] Stay in the lamp, stay in the song Do not look back until I cough If I miss a string, that is it You run, and you do not wait [chorus] I saw the knife before you did I have no better gift than this I saw the knife before you did Now take the road while I can hold him I saw the knife before you did I have no better gift than this I saw the knife before you did Now take the road while I can hold him [post-chorus] I saw the knife before you did I make a show to draw his eye He wanted you, he found my sleeve He will not find the street again [verse] My fingers catch on cold mornings now I still sit where I see both doors I take the stairs with steel on me I pause and listen in the dark You ask me why I never sleep I tell you gleemen keep odd hours The truth is I still hear the scrape Of steel that almost reached your back [pre-chorus] Stay in the lamp, stay in the song Do not look back until I cough If I miss a string, that is it You run, and you do not wait [chorus] I saw the knife before you did I have no better gift than this I saw the knife before you did Now take the road while I can hold him I saw the knife before you did I have no better gift than this I saw the knife before you did Now take the road while I can hold him [post-chorus] I saw the knife before you did I make a show to draw his eye He wanted you, he found my sleeve He will not find the street again [bridge] I used these knives for worse than this I liked the work more than I say Protecting you leaves the old stain It only gives the blades a use Skip the song if I go down You take the road I pointed out Forget the man who threw the steel Keep the lamp and keep walking [chorus] I saw the knife before you did I have no better gift than this I saw the knife before you did Now take the road while I can hold him I saw the knife before you did I have no better gift than this I saw the knife before you did Now take the road while I can hold him [outro] I saw the knife before you did That is enough, now take the lamp I wipe the blade and tune the harp Tomorrow I will make you laugh

[intro] Your handwriting still sits up straight I trace your name and lose the line I kept your letter, I kept your letter I read it twice before I sleep [verse] You watched me from the village green I joked because you made me slow I named the boys as my excuse I'd have followed you with empty hands We argued every mile of road I spat Aes Sedai like a bad drink You knew about the Tower and Owyn You knew exactly what that name could cost me [pre-chorus] You write so little I go hungry I turn the page as if there's more Tell me to come and I will come Tell me clearly, I am not proud [chorus] I kept your letter, I kept your letter I sleep with paper against my chest I kept your letter, I kept your letter Come back and take it from my hands I kept your letter, I kept your letter I sleep with paper against my chest I kept your letter, I kept your letter Come back and take it from my hands [post-chorus] I kept your letter, I kept your letter Hope makes the road look longer still If you are gone, this is a wound If you are waiting, I am late [verse] You stepped through fire and were gone I would not speak about the final page I wore your paper in my coat I mouth the lines when nights go long You pointed me at iron and music You trusted I would find the way I am that man, and I am frightened Frightened that I might reach you still [pre-chorus] You write so little I go hungry I turn the page as if there's more Tell me to come and I will come Tell me clearly, I am not proud [chorus] I kept your letter, I kept your letter I sleep with paper against my chest I kept your letter, I kept your letter Come back and take it from my hands I kept your letter, I kept your letter I sleep with paper against my chest I kept your letter, I kept your letter Come back and take it from my hands [post-chorus] I kept your letter, I kept your letter Hope makes the road look longer still If you are gone, this is a wound If you are waiting, I am late [bridge] I wanted you to need me openly You would find that request vulgar I loved a woman who keeps plans I loved the pause before you let me in Lan carried the duty, I carried paper I'm ashamed how often I reread it If hope is a trap, I walk in Moiraine, ask me once in a plain line [chorus] I kept your letter, I kept your letter I sleep with paper against my chest I kept your letter, I kept your letter Come back and take it from my hands I kept your letter, I kept your letter I sleep with paper against my chest I kept your letter, I kept your letter Come back and take it from my hands [outro] I kept your letter, I kept your letter I am coming where you pointed me If you are living, meet my hands If you are gone, I kept it anyway

[intro] Hold on, I am still playing They cannot bear a simple tune I brought a tune to steal you back I will play until it yields [verse] The tower stands with no true door I scratch the marks the stories taught I cut a sign and the surface opens I hold the flute like a live thing Noal walks like he already paid Mat checks the ashandarei and grins I count the beats so I don't shake We came for you, that is all [pre-chorus] Grief won't buy you out of this These halls will not hear a speech I have a tune, I have my hands Let that be enough to reach you [chorus] I brought a tune to steal you back I came to carry you out of here I brought a tune to steal you back Open, I will not leave here empty I brought a tune to steal you back I came to carry you out of here I brought a tune to steal you back Open, I will not leave here empty [post-chorus] I brought a tune to steal you back Mat pays, Noal pays, I keep going If that is cowardice, I'll take it So long as you come back with us [verse] The halls slide when I turn my head My tune keeps their hungry voices distant We find you hanging in the burning mist I reach through it and pull you to me Mat gives an eye; I wrap you in my cloak Noal turns back so the rest can run He shouts for us to keep on moving I carry you and cannot thank him [pre-chorus] Grief won't buy you out of this These halls will not hear a speech I have a tune, I have my hands Let that be enough to reach you [chorus] I brought a tune to steal you back I came to carry you out of here I brought a tune to steal you back Open, I will not leave here empty I brought a tune to steal you back I came to carry you out of here I brought a tune to steal you back Open, I will not leave here empty [post-chorus] I brought a tune to steal you back Mat pays, Noal pays, I keep going If that is cowardice, I'll take it So long as you come back with us [bridge] This was never my brave hour I shook the whole way through the metal I played again while Mat looked for the way Mat gave an eye to bring you home Noal stayed so the rest could run I only did the part I know If you thank me, thank them first I came because your letter asked [chorus] I brought a tune to steal you back I came to carry you out of here I brought a tune to steal you back Open, I will not leave here empty I brought a tune to steal you back I came to carry you out of here I brought a tune to steal you back Open, I will not leave here empty [outro] I brought a tune to steal you back You are breathing, that is enough Lean on my arm across the plain I have more songs, none of them this

[intro] Bank the coals, watch the step later I always rush a closing verse Sit down, I've one more story This one stays inside the room [verse] I know which pause will make you lean I leave a hero standing too long A boy asks how you learn this work I tell him start while he still dares I give him three tunes, then the hat He misses, laughs, then tries again That is the part I like the most The rest is smoke I sell for bread [pre-chorus] I could tell you how the world bent I could name the ones who paid I keep two names outside the hat I like sleeping with that choice [chorus] Sit down, I've one more story It costs more than the Hunt ever did Sit down, I've one more story Love did the work, and ordinary nerve Sit down, I've one more story It costs more than the Hunt ever did Sit down, I've one more story Love did the work, and ordinary nerve [post-chorus] Sit down, I've one more story Coin in the hat if you insist I want you listening more than paying This one is mine, and I am tired [verse] The room is low, the ale is warm A girl asks if the heroes lived I say some did, and some were lucky I say luck looks like stubborn friends I will not sell you Owyn's face Morgase stays out of the hat I tell you how a woman walked out And how a fool kept playing through [pre-chorus] I could tell you how the world bent I could name the ones who paid I keep two names outside the hat I like sleeping with that choice [chorus] Sit down, I've one more story It costs more than the Hunt ever did Sit down, I've one more story Love did the work, and ordinary nerve Sit down, I've one more story It costs more than the Hunt ever did Sit down, I've one more story Love did the work, and ordinary nerve [post-chorus] Sit down, I've one more story Coin in the hat if you insist I want you listening more than paying This one is mine, and I am tired [bridge] I used to think the tale was armor I used to think I stood outside it Then I went in and came back older I still hide what I promised to hide If I fall on a road, skip the statue Say I told stories, and I showed up Say I loved people I could not keep Then take your coats and go uphill [chorus] Sit down, I've one more story It costs more than the Hunt ever did Sit down, I've one more story Love did the work, and ordinary nerve Sit down, I've one more story It costs more than the Hunt ever did Sit down, I've one more story Love did the work, and ordinary nerve [outro] Sit down, I've one more story Goodnight, my mouth ran on too long Keep the laugh, keep the hard parts quiet I am done with this one tonight

[intro] A sword hangs over his left ear He asks me what I just saw I wipe the bar and look away Don't ask me, I don't want to see [verse] Aunt keeps me running up the stairs I pass a man who buys his ale A falcon sits above his hair I nearly drop the empty tray He laughs and asks if I can read I tell him prices, nothing more The picture stays when he walks out I bite the inside of my cheek [pre-chorus] They think I like the knowing part They think I deal it like a card It comes when I am buying bread I never asked to have this gift [chorus] Don't ask me, I don't want to see A skull sits shining on his brow Don't ask me, I don't want to see I pour his drink and shut my mouth Don't ask me, I don't want to see A skull sits shining on his brow Don't ask me, I don't want to see I pour his drink and shut my mouth [post-chorus] Keep talking weather, keep it light Ask after sisters, not the rest The picture will not leave his head Don't ask me, I don't want to see [verse] A woman in a shawl called it talent She talked like I had chosen work She tried to make me name a fate I told her pictures do not talk It came the morning of a wedding Twice in a yard beside a grave My aunts sew late and want me louder I cannot talk above the pictures [pre-chorus] They think I like the knowing part They think I deal it like a card It comes when I am buying bread I never asked to have this gift [chorus] Don't ask me, I don't want to see A skull sits shining on his brow Don't ask me, I don't want to see I pour his drink and shut my mouth Don't ask me, I don't want to see A skull sits shining on his brow Don't ask me, I don't want to see I pour his drink and shut my mouth [post-chorus] Keep talking weather, keep it light Ask after sisters, not the rest The picture will not leave his head Don't ask me, I don't want to see [bridge] I looked once in a looking glass No picture sits above my hair I wanted one, I wanted none I wanted something I could share The worst ones mean a person dies I still go down and take their cups I hate how much I want to help I hate how little help I am [chorus] Don't ask me, I don't want to see A skull sits shining on his brow Don't ask me, I don't want to see I pour his drink and shut my mouth Don't ask me, I don't want to see A skull sits shining on his brow Don't ask me, I don't want to see I pour his drink and shut my mouth [outro] Wipe the bar, don't meet his eyes I keep the till and keep my face Don't ask me, I don't want to see I never asked to see at all

[intro] Rain hits the boards at Stag and Lion Three country boys come through the door I meant to stay the winter here You walked in, and there went my life [verse] The tallest shakes the water off A blade is walking at his side Blood and stone sit on his hair I keep on pouring like I'm fine He asks for stew like anyone I watch the pictures as they fade I know this face will not stay small I dry my hands and hate that fact [pre-chorus] I have looked at soldiers before None of them sat this hard in me I don't get a written script I only get the first hard look [chorus] You walked in, and there went my life I kept your face after you left You walked in, and there went my life Now every road I have runs after you You walked in, and there went my life I kept your face after you left You walked in, and there went my life Now every road I have runs after you [post-chorus] Aunt said stay, the work is steady I had a room above the tap You walked in, and there went my life I watched you leave and knew we would meet [verse] Wolves gather where the broad one turns A dagger hangs above his friend The Aes Sedai watches my cup She waits until I tell the end The fire is loud, I sit quite still The others laugh above their bread I lie awake and hear his tread I know the man I'll want to keep [pre-chorus] I have looked at soldiers before None of them sat this hard in me I don't get a written script I only get the first hard look [chorus] You walked in, and there went my life I kept your face after you left You walked in, and there went my life Now every road I have runs after you You walked in, and there went my life I kept your face after you left You walked in, and there went my life Now every road I have runs after you [post-chorus] Aunt said stay, the work is steady I had a room above the tap You walked in, and there went my life I watched you leave and knew we would meet [bridge] I wanted him and hated that I wanted one quiet winter more I wanted not to see the rest The blood, the stone, the open door I didn't get to choose the hour I choose what I will do with that I still can smell the wet wool coat I still can hear him in the hall [chorus] You walked in, and there went my life I kept your face after you left You walked in, and there went my life Now every road I have runs after you You walked in, and there went my life I kept your face after you left You walked in, and there went my life Now every road I have runs after you [outro] Rain still falling on the boards I keep on working as before You walked in, and there went my life I cannot put you out of my head

[intro] Wool coat, shepherd hands, first year You say I suppose, and mean it I liked the laugh before the name It's you I want, take the titles off [verse] You sit too straight beside the fire I shift my seat a little near You ask how soon I mean to leave I joke about the hair, you laugh Your hands still look like farm work At Falme they put a voice on you It sits wrong in a quiet room I want the boy who asked for stew [pre-chorus] Dragon Reborn is work you wear I didn't fall for any job Come here and let the names go slack I can't kiss any title better [chorus] It's you I want, take the titles off Sit down, let me see your face It's you I want, take the titles off I came for you, the awkward man It's you I want, take the titles off Sit down, let me see your face It's you I want, take the titles off I came for you, the awkward man [post-chorus] Burned hand, no fat left on you You name the dead inside your sleep I hold your head till windows grey It's you I want, take the titles off [verse] Elayne asked once; I lied that night You asked; I told you what I saw You thanked me like it was bread I couldn't make the dark part small I tease you so you stay a man You talk like lords fill every room I can't cure you with my mouth I stay because I want the rest [pre-chorus] Dragon Reborn is work you wear I didn't fall for any job Come here and let the names go slack I can't kiss any title better [chorus] It's you I want, take the titles off Sit down, let me see your face It's you I want, take the titles off I came for you, the awkward man It's you I want, take the titles off Sit down, let me see your face It's you I want, take the titles off I came for you, the awkward man [post-chorus] Burned hand, no fat left on you You name the dead inside your sleep I hold your head till windows grey It's you I want, take the titles off [bridge] I liked being wanted, that's true I thought my wanting might be enough I sit up while you fight the air I am embarrassed how I stare When you forget the room has me Take the titles off and look back I am still here, say my name Say Min, and mean the woman here [chorus] It's you I want, take the titles off Sit down, let me see your face It's you I want, take the titles off I came for you, the awkward man It's you I want, take the titles off Sit down, let me see your face It's you I want, take the titles off I came for you, the awkward man [outro] Keep the joke going, stay sat down Let the fire do the talking now It's you I want, take the titles off Come closer, leave the job outside

[intro] Boots still on, four nights running You start the speech about the road I take my coat off where I stood I'm staying, stop sending me away [verse] You want me somewhere with a lock A safer town, a quieter bed You call it care, I hear goodbye I walked in on my own two feet The fire is low; I'll fetch the wood Move the other chair, I'm here You tell me why I ought to go I hang the coat and let it drip [pre-chorus] I thought the road to Baerlon through I pictured work and bread and rooms I stopped with one hand on the latch I stopped because I meant to stay [chorus] I'm staying, stop sending me away I see the risk, I want this room I'm staying, stop sending me away You don't get to choose my life I'm staying, stop sending me away I see the risk, I want this room I'm staying, stop sending me away You don't get to choose my life [post-chorus] I could have taken easier pay A bed in town, a quieter month I'm staying, stop sending me away Look at me while you try to leave [verse] Bad month, you laughed through the fear I took the months as they arrived You asked if something put me here I came because I meant to stay Don't pack my things while I sleep Don't write me out a kinder road I have eyes, I have already seen I still take off the coat and sit [pre-chorus] I thought the road to Baerlon through I pictured work and bread and rooms I stopped with one hand on the latch I stopped because I meant to stay [chorus] I'm staying, stop sending me away I see the risk, I want this room I'm staying, stop sending me away You don't get to choose my life I'm staying, stop sending me away I see the risk, I want this room I'm staying, stop sending me away You don't get to choose my life [post-chorus] I could have taken easier pay A bed in town, a quieter month I'm staying, stop sending me away Look at me while you try to leave [bridge] I'm not pretending I can't die That is the part you will not hear I stay with both eyes on the blade I stay and I am still afraid It would be easier to go I know the rooms in Baerlon still I want the life that lets you in That is the shame I will admit [chorus] I'm staying, stop sending me away I see the risk, I want this room I'm staying, stop sending me away You don't get to choose my life I'm staying, stop sending me away I see the risk, I want this room I'm staying, stop sending me away You don't get to choose my life [outro] Fetch the wood, the fire is low Your speech can wait beside the door I'm staying, stop sending me away This room is mine, I chose to stay

[intro] He wraps the scarf his wife once made He says she waits for him at home I smile and keep the rest inside I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it [verse] I told a man in Baerlon once He laughed and bought another round Spring came exactly as I saw I talk about the weather now A boy in market, sword above His mother had him by the hand I nearly spoke, then bought an apple I asked how long this cold would last [pre-chorus] I cannot peel the picture off I cannot make a death untrue I live beside the ones I love And carry what I cannot do [chorus] I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it I smiled and asked about his wife I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it He walked out; I ordered something strong I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it I smiled and asked about his wife I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it He walked out; I ordered something strong [post-chorus] I took the stairs and shut my door His face was with me in the dark The care I give still matters here I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it [verse] Then Rand asks what I see tonight I stare too long before I speak I packed twice, bag beside the door Unpacked both times and made the bed I cannot change the certain ones I sit with him and hold the lamp I keep the lamp and take the watch I do the care that still can help [pre-chorus] I cannot peel the picture off I cannot make a death untrue I live beside the ones I love And carry what I cannot do [chorus] I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it I smiled and asked about his wife I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it He walked out; I ordered something strong I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it I smiled and asked about his wife I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it He walked out; I ordered something strong [post-chorus] I took the stairs and shut my door His face was with me in the dark The care I give still matters here I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it [bridge] I wanted to be useful then I wanted one I could unmake The ugly part is sitting still Beside a truth I cannot break I still bring water, still sit up I still say his name into the dark Knowing does not pull a knife down I stay anyway, that is my mark [chorus] I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it I smiled and asked about his wife I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it He walked out; I ordered something strong I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it I smiled and asked about his wife I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it He walked out; I ordered something strong [outro] Smile, ask how the cold will last Keep the lamp close, keep my mouth kind I saw it coming, I couldn't stop it I am still here with what I find

[intro] They handed me a dress; I folded it A sister said trousers pick fights I told her pockets, wrote that down Let them look, they won't know me [verse] I curl my hair and use my full name I wear the dress that doesn't feel right I sit where they put the quiet girl I file their papers and keep knives Elaida asks as though it's tea A little reading, poured on cue I tell her pictures come unasked She asks again what I can do [pre-chorus] They think the trick is what they say They think a dress will make me small The coup comes through the corridors I already packed a satchel tight [chorus] Let them look, they won't know me I walk their halls in borrowed clothes Let them look, they won't know me I am the girl who holds the door Let them look, they won't know me I walk their halls in borrowed clothes Let them look, they won't know me I am the girl who holds the door [post-chorus] Siuan still bites when she is hurt Leane moves like someone new I get them out the way I can Let them look, they won't know me [verse] I take the keys and find the cells Siuan is hurt and still gives orders Leane comes with us through the dark I hold the door and watch the stairs The halls I walked are full of blood A footstep makes us stop and listen We have to get beyond these walls I lift my skirts and hurry on [pre-chorus] They think the trick is what they say They think a dress will make me small The coup comes through the corridors I already packed a satchel tight [chorus] Let them look, they won't know me I walk their halls in borrowed clothes Let them look, they won't know me I am the girl who holds the door Let them look, they won't know me I walk their halls in borrowed clothes Let them look, they won't know me I am the girl who holds the door [post-chorus] Siuan still bites when she is hurt Leane moves like someone new I get them out the way I can Let them look, they won't know me [bridge] I liked the hiding more than I should The ugly truth is I felt free No aunt, no viewing asked out loud Just corridors and a false name Then blood in the hall and I chose sides I am a barmaid with a key I got them through; I shook the whole way I still check pockets in my sleep [chorus] Let them look, they won't know me I walk their halls in borrowed clothes Let them look, they won't know me I am the girl who holds the door Let them look, they won't know me I walk their halls in borrowed clothes Let them look, they won't know me I am the girl who holds the door [outro] Borrowed dress, my full name spoken Halls that think they have my measure Let them look, they won't know me I keep the door, I keep the knives

[intro] I saw three women the first hour I laughed, a cruel tavern joke Then Elayne walked in with that face Three of us, and I still choose you [verse] I didn't pick the picture shown I pick the words I say tonight Elayne writes with a lion seal She asks after you, then after me Aviendha used to watch my hands Now she brings a blanket when it rains She calls it toh and won't take pay I haven't got the words; she said learn [pre-chorus] Nobody sings the ordinary part What you ate, and where you slept I'd rather know where you slept We keep a lamp between the chairs [chorus] Three of us, and I still choose you I won't try to make them disappear Three of us, and I still choose you Come here, this choice is mine to keep Three of us, and I still choose you I won't try to make them disappear Three of us, and I still choose you Come here, this choice is mine to keep [post-chorus] Uneasy, yes, I will say that Affection, too, I will not lie Three of us, and I still choose you We made a room beside the lamp [verse] You look at me like I might bolt I counted, it does not come even I cannot talk you out of dying I can move the lamp and stay Elayne has countries in her mouth Aviendha has a spear and pride I have a viewing and a chair I take the chair, I take you anyway [pre-chorus] Nobody sings the ordinary part What you ate, and where you slept I'd rather know where you slept We keep a lamp between the chairs [chorus] Three of us, and I still choose you I won't try to make them disappear Three of us, and I still choose you Come here, this choice is mine to keep Three of us, and I still choose you I won't try to make them disappear Three of us, and I still choose you Come here, this choice is mine to keep [post-chorus] Uneasy, yes, I will say that Affection, too, I will not lie Three of us, and I still choose you We made a room beside the lamp [bridge] I wanted you without the rest That is the small mean thought I had I got two women I would fight for I got a household I defend I am choosing with my eyes open If you ask who I came here for I came for you, and I remain I stay even when it feels strange [chorus] Three of us, and I still choose you I won't try to make them disappear Three of us, and I still choose you Come here, this choice is mine to keep Three of us, and I still choose you I won't try to make them disappear Three of us, and I still choose you Come here, this choice is mine to keep [outro] Three chairs, a letter on the table Blanket when the rain comes in Three of us, and I still choose you Say my name, I'll say it back

[intro] The pyre burns down toward the coals Elayne and Aviendha stand with me We hold the smoke like it was true I'll keep your secret, go and live [verse] Seanchan drums are on the plain They bring a silk dress to my chair I leave my knives beneath the coat I take my place and read the air They ask what hangs above a man A sign I cannot make come clear I tell her only what I know She makes the waiting officers hear it [pre-chorus] A servant's pictures crowd the room I watch her watching at the door My knife goes out; she stops the blade I tell them what they're looking for [chorus] I'll keep your secret, go and live The bond still talks when pyres cool I'll keep your secret, go and live A funeral cannot lie to me I'll keep your secret, go and live The bond still talks when pyres cool I'll keep your secret, go and live A funeral cannot lie to me [post-chorus] Keep the lamp beside the book Leave a window on the road I'll keep your secret, go and live I read so I can bear the wait [verse] I sat behind the lines and read I named the signs I understood After, they wanted me in court They dress me, then they ask again I know you walked when you should not I know the body on the wood I send you with the secret kept I want you back and let you go [pre-chorus] A servant's pictures crowd the room I watch her watching at the door My knife goes out; she stops the blade I tell them what they're looking for [chorus] I'll keep your secret, go and live The bond still talks when pyres cool I'll keep your secret, go and live A funeral cannot lie to me I'll keep your secret, go and live The bond still talks when pyres cool I'll keep your secret, go and live A funeral cannot lie to me [post-chorus] Keep the lamp beside the book Leave a window on the road I'll keep your secret, go and live I read so I can bear the wait [bridge] I wanted to be the one you tell I wanted more than smoke and court The embarrassing truth is I am glad Glad you stole a life from them I miss your head against my hands I miss the chair, the ugly months Go live, but send me word you're safe If I see you, I might not send you [chorus] I'll keep your secret, go and live The bond still talks when pyres cool I'll keep your secret, go and live A funeral cannot lie to me I'll keep your secret, go and live The bond still talks when pyres cool I'll keep your secret, go and live A funeral cannot lie to me [outro] I keep the window slightly wide The bond still talks me through the night I'll keep your secret, go and live I will be here if you come home

[intro] Scales dried under my nails Father's boat lives in my mouth Don't blush when the salt rises You can't wash out the river [verse] I learned the catch before books Father counted fish by the pound Dawn sat dirty on the water I scaled till my thumbs went raw The market women shouted my name I sold the lot, then I smiled Hall talk sits wrong in my mouth I came from a boat that leaked [pre-chorus] Sisters pinch their mouths at me They want the fishwife rinsed off I keep the dock in my vowels Leave my father's tongue alone now [chorus] You can wash my hands, you can't wash out the river I still smell like nets on the stairs You can wash my hands, you can't wash out the river That old boat stays under my skin You can wash my hands, you can't wash out the river I still smell like nets on the stairs You can wash my hands, you can't wash out the river That old boat stays under my skin [post-chorus] You can't wash out the river Soap me and call me Mother The river stays in my mouth You can't wash out the river [verse] They buttoned me into their white I wear the Tower like a coat Dock words jump when I get angry Good. Let the pretty ones flinch I think in knots till it holds I mend nets the way I plan Keep shame off my father's boat I price a room like a catch [pre-chorus] Sisters pinch their mouths at me They want the fishwife rinsed off I keep the dock in my vowels Leave my father's tongue alone now [chorus] You can wash my hands, you can't wash out the river I still smell like nets on the stairs You can wash my hands, you can't wash out the river That old boat stays under my skin You can wash my hands, you can't wash out the river I still smell like nets on the stairs You can wash my hands, you can't wash out the river That old boat stays under my skin [post-chorus] You can't wash out the river Soap me and call me Mother The river stays in my mouth You can't wash out the river [bridge] I wanted their respect like bait I practiced that walk after dark Then I heard my mouth go soft I spit the river back in Father would laugh me off the dock If I let them rinse me I keep the salt where they hear it I am the girl who gutted fish [chorus] You can wash my hands, you can't wash out the river I still smell like nets on the stairs You can wash my hands, you can't wash out the river That old boat stays under my skin You can wash my hands, you can't wash out the river I still smell like nets on the stairs You can wash my hands, you can't wash out the river That old boat stays under my skin [outro] Wash my hands, leave the river The dock sits in my throat You can't wash out the river Don't try. I like the taste

[intro] Too young, they said, and too sharp I put the stole on anyway The Hall can keep its sums I fit the stole, now listen [verse] Thirty years old in this chair Older sisters sit doing their sums They smile like I am a fool A fool gets handed every crumb I let them think they lead me I take the crumb and the room I kept the Blues fed and mean I counted every vote with a knife [pre-chorus] You all expected to manage me You can bow or you can wait I have work that will not wait Moiraine is out on the road [chorus] I fit the stole, now listen You will keep your hands off my chair I fit the stole, now listen I sit here, so you sit down now I fit the stole, now listen You will keep your hands off my chair I fit the stole, now listen I sit here, so you sit down now [post-chorus] Now listen, I fit the stole This chair is mine in the morning Now listen, I fit the stole Sit down while I talk, sisters [verse] The chair puts friends out of reach One friend rides through the cold I bite the rest of it down Sorry would only waste her time I eat alone and I like it I like it till the lamp goes out Then I want a sister to swear at I pay for this with silence [pre-chorus] You all expected to manage me You can bow or you can wait I have work that will not wait Moiraine is out on the road [chorus] I fit the stole, now listen You will keep your hands off my chair I fit the stole, now listen I sit here, so you sit down now I fit the stole, now listen You will keep your hands off my chair I fit the stole, now listen I sit here, so you sit down now [post-chorus] Now listen, I fit the stole This chair is mine in the morning Now listen, I fit the stole Sit down while I talk, sisters [bridge] I am young and I know it This task is bigger than the Hall If Moiraine falls, I failed her That is the part I don't say They can hate the way I sit They can call me a dock girl Just don't let me lose the Dragon I put this stole on for that [chorus] I fit the stole, now listen You will keep your hands off my chair I fit the stole, now listen I sit here, so you sit down now I fit the stole, now listen You will keep your hands off my chair I fit the stole, now listen I sit here, so you sit down now [outro] I fit the stole, now listen Bow or wait in the hall I fit the stole, now listen I am done asking you twice

[intro] The Foretelling sat in my chest A boy was born in the snow We shut our mouths on the news Hold the line, don't let him drown [verse] I picked my water and waited I kept the Hall fat and busy I burned the letters before dawn I sent my answers through sealed letters He runs like flood through a net I feel him tug in my hands I talk to him like a catch I keep the hook out of sight [pre-chorus] Don't brag you have him landed He still thinks the river is his Give him room or he snaps you Hold him light, hold him true [chorus] Hold the line, don't let him drown He will take you under with him Hold the line, don't let him drown Give him slack and keep the hook Hold the line, don't let him drown He will take you under with him Hold the line, don't let him drown Give him slack and keep the hook [post-chorus] Don't let him drown in your hands Hold the line through the pull Don't let him drown in your hands The world goes down with him [verse] I used sisters like bait fish I spent lives to keep him moving He is a person on that hook I still tell Moiraine to hold Lose him and the Dark has him I sleep with line on my wrist I wake up counting his breath I hate how much we need him [pre-chorus] Don't brag you have him landed He still thinks the river is his Give him room or he snaps you Hold him light, hold him true [chorus] Hold the line, don't let him drown He will take you under with him Hold the line, don't let him drown Give him slack and keep the hook Hold the line, don't let him drown He will take you under with him Hold the line, don't let him drown Give him slack and keep the hook [post-chorus] Don't let him drown in your hands Hold the line through the pull Don't let him drown in your hands The world goes down with him [bridge] I call him a fish so I can stand it He is a man, and he burns I do not own the Dragon I own the duty to keep him breathing Scheming stops where he starts drowning That is the limit I named Hold the line, then let him run He was never mine to keep [chorus] Hold the line, don't let him drown He will take you under with him Hold the line, don't let him drown Give him slack and keep the hook Hold the line, don't let him drown He will take you under with him Hold the line, don't let him drown Give him slack and keep the hook [outro] Hold the line, don't let him drown Let him run, keep the hook Hold the line, don't let him drown I know how hard a hooked thing fights

[intro] They held me down on Tower stone There was no wound to show Give it back, I still feel it I can still feel the place [verse] They took the stole off my shoulders They cut the Source out of me I knew every name that held me My legs still carried me out I reached for the standing flow The step was gone under my foot I struck flint and got only smoke I turned my face from the spark [pre-chorus] Do not bring me a kind voice Save your sad voice for someone else I want the thing you stole I want it in my hands [chorus] Give it back, I can still feel the place Keep your pity off my face now Give it back, I can still feel the place I reach out and grab at nothing Give it back, I can still feel the place Keep your pity off my face now Give it back, I can still feel the place I reach out and grab at nothing [post-chorus] Give it back I can still feel the place Give it back The hole is still the shape of it [verse] My old face left me overnight A stranger stares from the basin Leane is breathing by the wall I toss her a knot to finish Work is the only clean thing left I have their names in easy reach I have words for Elaida later I am counting while I sit [pre-chorus] Do not bring me a kind voice Save your sad voice for someone else I want the thing you stole I want it in my hands [chorus] Give it back, I can still feel the place Keep your pity off my face now Give it back, I can still feel the place I reach out and grab at nothing Give it back, I can still feel the place Keep your pity off my face now Give it back, I can still feel the place I reach out and grab at nothing [post-chorus] Give it back I can still feel the place Give it back The hole is still the shape of it [bridge] I would take it back ugly I would take it back smaller I would crawl for one sip of it That is the part that shames me I can gut a man with a look I cannot spark a lamp now Give it back, even a sip I can still feel the place it was [chorus] Give it back, I can still feel the place Keep your pity off my face now Give it back, I can still feel the place I reach out and grab at nothing Give it back, I can still feel the place Keep your pity off my face now Give it back, I can still feel the place I reach out and grab at nothing [outro] Give it back, I can still feel the place Ask me if I am finished Give it back, I can still feel the place I can still count. Watch me work

[intro] A new name and a bucket Siuan, just Siuan, the stole gone The road tastes like a bitten coin I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here [verse] I went to my knees on their stone A girl in white would not move I let her pass and I grinned Good morning, I said, and meant none I stored her face for later use Leane put on another woman's dress I called her a grinning river rat She laughed and kissed my cheek [pre-chorus] Exile sits like a coin on my tongue I swallow and I take the road Give me work to fill my hands I'll eat first. I'll plan after [chorus] I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here This copper on my tongue, I swallow I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here Purpose can wait till I stand up I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here This copper on my tongue, I swallow I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here Purpose can wait till I stand up [post-chorus] I won't die here I'll eat what they put down I won't die here I'll walk till the plan comes back [verse] I wrung cloth till my knuckles split I moved chairs in a scullion dress Nobody thought to ask my name A sister wanted news from town I told her first to sit down I slept above the kitchen steam I counted coins like they were fish Survival first. The rest can wait [pre-chorus] Exile sits like a coin on my tongue I swallow and I take the road Give me work to fill my hands I'll eat first. I'll plan after [chorus] I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here This copper on my tongue, I swallow I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here Purpose can wait till I stand up I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here This copper on my tongue, I swallow I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here Purpose can wait till I stand up [post-chorus] I won't die here I'll eat what they put down I won't die here I'll walk till the plan comes back [bridge] I used to make the Hall wait Now I wait on a girl with a bucket The joke sits on my back I laugh so I don't spit blood Humiliation puts food in my mouth I can bear a bucket and a smirk Dying in this yard would finish their joke So I eat. I walk. I stay ugly [chorus] I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here This copper on my tongue, I swallow I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here Purpose can wait till I stand up I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here This copper on my tongue, I swallow I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here Purpose can wait till I stand up [outro] I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here Copper and all, I still swallow I'll eat, I'll walk, I won't die here Keep walking till the plan wakes

[intro] They took the stole and sent me Runners find me all the same Mock the fishwife and keep talking Pull one thread, I still know who will answer [verse] A clerk in a port has a name A groom heard it after dark The letter waits by my elbow I hold it closer to the lamp We burn the scraps before morning We start another page at night Moiraine is riding through cold I keep her moving with paper [pre-chorus] You think the web went with the chair It lives in habits and hands A cup, a gate, a late horse I still know who will answer [chorus] Pull one thread, I still know who will answer You leave the letter beside my cup Pull one thread, I still know who will answer The groom can go, I already know Pull one thread, I still know who will answer You leave the letter beside my cup Pull one thread, I still know who will answer The groom can go, I already know [post-chorus] I still know who will answer Gate, groom, cup, the same old path I still know who will answer Work is the stole I have left [verse] They sent me out in a cheap dress The runners still find my table I name the hands that brought them They slide the news under my plate I rebuild the web by walking it I stack each answer like a brick I teach a girl which gate to watch I earn my keep in messages [pre-chorus] You think the web went with the chair It lives in habits and hands A cup, a gate, a late horse I still know who will answer [chorus] Pull one thread, I still know who will answer You leave the letter beside my cup Pull one thread, I still know who will answer The groom can go, I already know Pull one thread, I still know who will answer You leave the letter beside my cup Pull one thread, I still know who will answer The groom can go, I already know [post-chorus] I still know who will answer Gate, groom, cup, the same old path I still know who will answer Work is the stole I have left [bridge] I liked being the one they feared Now they use me. Fine. Use me I use them back before dawn The shame is I missed the noise The Hall was a loud kind of net This quiet work fits my hands Pull one thread and I feel alive I still know who will answer me [chorus] Pull one thread, I still know who will answer You leave the letter beside my cup Pull one thread, I still know who will answer The groom can go, I already know Pull one thread, I still know who will answer You leave the letter beside my cup Pull one thread, I still know who will answer The groom can go, I already know [outro] Pull one thread, I still know who will answer Go on, mock the fishwife, talk Pull one thread, I still know who will answer Look. The letter is already here

[intro] You found me on a dirty road I told you nothing was here I didn't ask for you, don't go Don't you dare make this easy [verse] You had no army left to run I had no boat and a temper I told you to take your horses You stood there like a planted post You make me eat. You count my hours I promised to gut you. You shrugged It burns me that I sleep better You ruin a perfectly good sulk [pre-chorus] Don't look at me like I need this I can walk. I have walked Then you go still by the door And my mouth changes its mind [chorus] I didn't ask for you, don't go You keep turning up with damn food I didn't ask for you, don't go You damn fool, stay in my sight I didn't ask for you, don't go You keep turning up with damn food I didn't ask for you, don't go You damn fool, stay in my sight [post-chorus] Don't go, I didn't ask for you Stay anyway, you stubborn old ox Don't go, I didn't ask for you Come here and take this hand [verse] You drilled men while I taught the girl I did it in a scullion dress You watched me like I might vanish I snapped and you let it lie You hold a plate until I eat I call you a fool and I eat I am angry I got used to you That is a stupid way to live [pre-chorus] Don't look at me like I need this I can walk. I have walked Then you go still by the door And my mouth changes its mind [chorus] I didn't ask for you, don't go You keep turning up with damn food I didn't ask for you, don't go You damn fool, stay in my sight I didn't ask for you, don't go You keep turning up with damn food I didn't ask for you, don't go You damn fool, stay in my sight [post-chorus] Don't go, I didn't ask for you Stay anyway, you stubborn old ox Don't go, I didn't ask for you Come here and take this hand [bridge] I asked to lay the bond on you You held my hand and let me speak You asked me for a life together I found the yes beneath my fear I need you and I hate the need Don't make a speech. Don't look proud Blow the lamp out if you must Just don't leave the room yet [chorus] I didn't ask for you, don't go You keep turning up with damn food I didn't ask for you, don't go You damn fool, stay in my sight I didn't ask for you, don't go You keep turning up with damn food I didn't ask for you, don't go You damn fool, stay in my sight [outro] I didn't ask for you, don't go Blow the lamp out. Stay anyway I didn't ask for you, don't go That is the end of my pride

[intro] They wrote me dead. Fine. I walked A buried woman still buys bread I am still here, I am still Siuan Don't wait for me to kneel [verse] I walked in wearing a borrowed skirt Leane kept pace and kept grinning Nobody knelt. I liked the air I slept with no chair in the room I taught Egwene to hold a Hall I made them wait through their fear She has the stole. I have her back That is enough work for me [pre-chorus] They gave the Power back thinner I still channel, just thinner now I still know how a Hall turns I spend that on Egwene's chair [chorus] I am still here, I am still Siuan I came back smaller, twice as mean I am still here, I am still Siuan Come in and count what I kept I am still here, I am still Siuan I came back smaller, twice as mean I am still here, I am still Siuan Come in and count what I kept [post-chorus] I am still here in this camp I am still Siuan at first light I am still here in this camp Bone and working hands, that's plenty [verse] Egwene wears what I used to wear I stand behind and I correct her I like this better than the kneeling I like being the knife in the room I eat at her table and I watch I send the notes. I keep the hours If the Last Battle wants me, fine I will be Siuan when it comes [pre-chorus] They gave the Power back thinner I still channel, just thinner now I still know how a Hall turns I spend that on Egwene's chair [chorus] I am still here, I am still Siuan I came back smaller, twice as mean I am still here, I am still Siuan Come in and count what I kept I am still here, I am still Siuan I came back smaller, twice as mean I am still here, I am still Siuan Come in and count what I kept [post-chorus] I am still here in this camp I am still Siuan at first light I am still here in this camp Bone and working hands, that's plenty [bridge] I miss the old strength in my blood I miss it. I won't crawl for it The girl on the Seat is the point I still wait for the room to bow Then hate myself for wanting it I am here without the old strength I am still Siuan. Let that serve If tomorrow takes me, I was here [chorus] I am still here, I am still Siuan I came back smaller, twice as mean I am still here, I am still Siuan Come in and count what I kept I am still here, I am still Siuan I came back smaller, twice as mean I am still here, I am still Siuan Come in and count what I kept [outro] I am still here, I am still Siuan Come count what I kept, girl I am still here, I am still Siuan I will be Siuan when it comes

[intro] I hang the wet coat by the door The wrapped blade rests on the bench I fold the cloth the army way Put it away, the day's work is done [verse] I rode those last miles in the rain Salt stood hard along my collar Kari walked beside me through the yard We tied the reins and lit the lamp I set the heron hilt under wool She put a bowl of stew in reach I ate and watched the kitchen wall I slept in a bed that held still [pre-chorus] The heron on the hilt still catches light I did not earn that mark for nothing The years of steel still live in me My wrists remember more than I want [chorus] Put it away, the day's work is done The flock stamps at the lower gate Put it away, the day's work is done I take the key and go to them Put it away, the day's work is done The flock stamps at the lower gate Put it away, the day's work is done I take the key and go to them [post-chorus] Hang it back behind the winter coats Leave the old forms inside the wrap Walk the pasture before the dark Put it away, the day's work is done [verse] At first light I muck out the stalls My hands still square as if to draw I catch myself and lift a pail The ewes crowd in and want the latch Come autumn I oil the hidden steel A short while, then the cloth goes back The village never asks me what I was I take the flock with empty hands [pre-chorus] The heron on the hilt still catches light I did not earn that mark for nothing The years of steel still live in me My wrists remember more than I want [chorus] Put it away, the day's work is done The flock stamps at the lower gate Put it away, the day's work is done I take the key and go to them Put it away, the day's work is done The flock stamps at the lower gate Put it away, the day's work is done I take the key and go to them [post-chorus] Hang it back behind the winter coats Leave the old forms inside the wrap Walk the pasture before the dark Put it away, the day's work is done [bridge] I miss the quiet of a clean camp That is the part I never name A flock only wants the gate opened They stamp and breathe and keep me busy Some nights my fingers find the knot I stop before the cloth comes loose I stay a farmer if I keep stopping That is all the courage I have [chorus] Put it away, the day's work is done The flock stamps at the lower gate Put it away, the day's work is done I take the key and go to them Put it away, the day's work is done The flock stamps at the lower gate Put it away, the day's work is done I take the key and go to them [outro] The lamp is out. The yard is still My shoulders drop the way they should Tomorrow is water, fence, and hay Put it away, the day's work is done

[intro] The wind cuts sideways off the peak Your mother lies still in the drift I open my coat with shaking hands You're cold, little one, come here [verse] I searched the slope after the fighting The slope was loud with wind and horses I saw a dark shape against the white A woman, chin lifted, already gone Your cry came thin from under her cloak I lifted you free of the wet wool I tucked you inside my army coat I talked so you would hear a voice [pre-chorus] Your breath is small against my chest The road down is long and badly lit I can keep you if I keep moving Hold on. I have you in the wool [chorus] You're cold, little one, come here I tuck you where the coat is warm You're cold, little one, come here Cry if you need; I have you now You're cold, little one, come here I tuck you where the coat is warm You're cold, little one, come here Cry if you need; I have you now [post-chorus] The horses stamp and blow white air I count your breath inside the wool We start down before the next squall You're cold, little one, come here [verse] You quiet when the saddle steadies I keep two fingers on your chest The camp lights look a long way down I think of Kari waiting for me When we are home she takes you gently She checks your mouth, your hands, your feet We sit together by the low lamp You close your fist around my thumb [pre-chorus] Your breath is small against my chest The road down is long and badly lit I can keep you if I keep moving Hold on. I have you in the wool [chorus] You're cold, little one, come here I tuck you where the coat is warm You're cold, little one, come here Cry if you need; I have you now You're cold, little one, come here I tuck you where the coat is warm You're cold, little one, come here Cry if you need; I have you now [post-chorus] The horses stamp and blow white air I count your breath inside the wool We start down before the next squall You're cold, little one, come here [bridge] I did not climb that slope for a son I thought the fighting was all I would find I almost passed the drift in the dark Your cry is the only reason I stopped I am tired, and I wanted you living I wanted a living child in the coat If the world wants more from you later Tonight I only want you warm [chorus] You're cold, little one, come here I tuck you where the coat is warm You're cold, little one, come here Cry if you need; I have you now You're cold, little one, come here I tuck you where the coat is warm You're cold, little one, come here Cry if you need; I have you now [outro] Sleep. The wind is on the other side Kari's hand is on the blanket too You were my son before I reached the road You're cold, little one, come here

[intro] Mist still sits on the Waterwood I have been up since before first light He is already at the north fence Let him be a boy a little longer [verse] He lets the ewes into the lower grain I find him standing in the wreck He expects a shout. I hand a rake We work the wreck until our backs ache Rain starts. He wants to run home I keep us working through the row He laughs once, wet hair in his eyes I look away so he can be proud [pre-chorus] Sometimes I hear Kari in his answer Red hair catching every bit of sun I wish that she could watch him growing I think she would be proud of us [chorus] Let him be a boy a little longer Keep the south road from this house Let him be a boy a little longer I am not ready for next year Let him be a boy a little longer Keep the south road from this house Let him be a boy a little longer I am not ready for next year [post-chorus] Kettle on. A place by the fire He comes in muddy and wants bread I cut it thick and watch him eat Let him be a boy a little longer [verse] Bel Tine, he climbs the fence too far Sparks catch in his hair and he whoops He has never seen snow that kills If I can help it, he never will He shoots the bow too fast and grins I make him draw again, from the back He wants a story from the south I tell him about sheep. He stays [pre-chorus] Sometimes I hear Kari in his answer Red hair catching every bit of sun I wish that she could watch him growing I think she would be proud of us [chorus] Let him be a boy a little longer Keep the south road from this house Let him be a boy a little longer I am not ready for next year Let him be a boy a little longer Keep the south road from this house Let him be a boy a little longer I am not ready for next year [post-chorus] Kettle on. A place by the fire He comes in muddy and wants bread I cut it thick and watch him eat Let him be a boy a little longer [bridge] I tell myself I am buying time A season more, then another season Some day he will ask what I was I will answer. I have it ready Until then I want him bored and fed I want him arguing about the fence The greedy part is I want more years I would steal them if the days allowed [chorus] Let him be a boy a little longer Keep the south road from this house Let him be a boy a little longer I am not ready for next year Let him be a boy a little longer Keep the south road from this house Let him be a boy a little longer I am not ready for next year [outro] Come in. Your boots are soaked through Sit. The kettle has been on since dusk There is no hurry in this house Let him be a boy a little longer

[intro] The lamp pulls sideways. Kari, stay close He is hauling me over wet roots My mouth is working without my leave I didn't mean for you to hear [verse] Trolloc poison has my jaw unlocked Words come out in the wrong order I see snow, a slope, a still woman I see a child pulled from a cloak He is listening. I can feel him listen I try to say he was wanted then It comes out broken, like a finding Like I stumbled on him in passing [pre-chorus] Son, the fever tells it crooked You were ours before the night was done If you heard a colder version first The poison got to the words first [chorus] I didn't mean for you to hear I cannot hold the story still I didn't mean for you to hear You are my boy. Stay by the bed I didn't mean for you to hear I cannot hold the story still I didn't mean for you to hear You are my boy. Stay by the bed [post-chorus] If it sounded like I did not want you Come closer now. Let me try again The lamp is low. I know your hand I didn't mean for you to hear [verse] I warmed you inside a soldier's coat The horse went slow because I made it I talked so you would keep on breathing Kari held you when we came home I meant to tell you on a fence In daylight, looking at your face This is a bad way to first hear it My mouth is running ahead of me [pre-chorus] Son, the fever tells it crooked You were ours before the night was done If you heard a colder version first The poison got to the words first [chorus] I didn't mean for you to hear I cannot hold the story still I didn't mean for you to hear You are my boy. Stay by the bed I didn't mean for you to hear I cannot hold the story still I didn't mean for you to hear You are my boy. Stay by the bed [post-chorus] If it sounded like I did not want you Come closer now. Let me try again The lamp is low. I know your hand I didn't mean for you to hear [bridge] I think I see the kitchen window Then snow comes through the room again If I could hold my mind together I would make you hear me clearly I never wished I had walked past you I owe you that in words that hold If I live, I will sit up and say I wanted you from the first cry [chorus] I didn't mean for you to hear I cannot hold the story still I didn't mean for you to hear You are my boy. Stay by the bed I didn't mean for you to hear I cannot hold the story still I didn't mean for you to hear You are my boy. Stay by the bed [outro] Sheepherders talk slow. I talked too fast Forgive the mess I made of it Keep your hand where it is a while I didn't mean for you to hear

[intro] I take it down from behind the coats The wrap is creased where Kari folded it I put it in your hands this time Come back without it if you must [verse] I kept it behind the winter coats You thought the wardrobe held only wool I oiled it when you went to town Then shut the door and mended fence You wanted sword talk after supper I gave you the bow instead Hit what you mean. Come home for stew That was all the talk I allowed [pre-chorus] This is a tool. It cuts, son It will not keep you lucky If steel and boy cannot both last I have already chosen you [chorus] Take the sword, come back without it if you must I care more for your life, son Take the sword, come back without it if you must Do not die to save the steel Take the sword, come back without it if you must I care more for your life, son Take the sword, come back without it if you must Do not die to save the steel [post-chorus] Eat before you leave the yard Keep the edge dry if you can Drop it in a ditch if you must Come back. That is the point [verse] I show you the wrap and the tang Wipe it. Do not flash it around A shepherd with steel draws talk Tell them as little as you can I cannot promise you a quiet road I will not call this a blessing Come back tired. Come back empty-handed Come back. That is the only order [pre-chorus] This is a tool. It cuts, son It will not keep you lucky If steel and boy cannot both last I have already chosen you [chorus] Take the sword, come back without it if you must I care more for your life, son Take the sword, come back without it if you must Do not die to save the steel Take the sword, come back without it if you must I care more for your life, son Take the sword, come back without it if you must Do not die to save the steel [post-chorus] Eat before you leave the yard Keep the edge dry if you can Drop it in a ditch if you must Come back. That is the point [bridge] Kari asked why I keep a sword I said the world stays unkind She hated that and I did too I stored a door I hoped stayed shut Now I hand it over to you It feels like failing you in daylight If you come home without the heron I will not ask you where it went [chorus] Take the sword, come back without it if you must I care more for your life, son Take the sword, come back without it if you must Do not die to save the steel Take the sword, come back without it if you must I care more for your life, son Take the sword, come back without it if you must Do not die to save the steel [outro] Go if you have to. Watch the road I will be here when the gate sounds Bring yourself. Leave the rest behind Take the sword, come back without it if you must

[intro] You look through me like I'm weather The pack has been ready since midnight I am still your father in this room You're my son, you don't have to earn it [verse] A woman in the hall calls me master I know the voice that brings orders I ask who told her where to find me She answers like I should know You hold yourself so still it hurts I reach for you; you step away You watch my hands over the cloth Like I might take my name back [pre-chorus] They used my name to move you That stings. I will say it once I am here because you are mine Sit. Let the hall wait outside [chorus] You're my son, you don't have to earn it Stop standing there like I might refuse You're my son, you don't have to earn it Come here. Let me look at you You're my son, you don't have to earn it Stop standing there like I might refuse You're my son, you don't have to earn it Come here. Let me look at you [post-chorus] I raised you through the winter coughs I watched you grow and I was glad They have talked enough in the hall You never had to earn this [verse] You ask if I remember much You wait by the bed like a man on trial I owe you truth and I am slow You were a child who needed carrying That mountain night was not a test If you are angry, be angry here Spend it in this room with me I still claim you. I always did [pre-chorus] They used my name to move you That stings. I will say it once I am here because you are mine Sit. Let the hall wait outside [chorus] You're my son, you don't have to earn it Stop standing there like I might refuse You're my son, you don't have to earn it Come here. Let me look at you You're my son, you don't have to earn it Stop standing there like I might refuse You're my son, you don't have to earn it Come here. Let me look at you [post-chorus] I raised you through the winter coughs I watched you grow and I was glad They have talked enough in the hall You never had to earn this [bridge] I am hurt that strangers steer you I wish I'd seen what they were doing I thought that being here would help You have a weight I cannot lift I cannot take the whole world from you I can still make a place for you If you walk out cold tonight You still have a father when you turn [chorus] You're my son, you don't have to earn it Stop standing there like I might refuse You're my son, you don't have to earn it Come here. Let me look at you You're my son, you don't have to earn it Stop standing there like I might refuse You're my son, you don't have to earn it Come here. Let me look at you [outro] I leave my hand where you can take it Come when you can; I will be here Your stool stays waiting by the fire You're my son, you don't have to earn it

[intro] Perrin, you have more men than sleep I walked in with a bow and pack Your command stays yours. I am asking I'm here for our boys, give me a place [verse] You came home with gold in your eyes I did not ask you for the story You wanted the smithy. You got a host Lead them. I came to help Trollocs in the Westwood, trees cracking Young men waiting on a voice like mine I hoped I was finished with this Put me where an old soldier helps [pre-chorus] You need even voices in the line Frightened men hold to a steady count I can give you that, Perrin Keep the hammer. Let me serve [chorus] I'm here for our boys, give me a place Point at a ridge. I will stand I'm here for our boys, give me a place I came to keep them breathing, Perrin I'm here for our boys, give me a place Point at a ridge. I will stand I'm here for our boys, give me a place I came to keep them breathing, Perrin [post-chorus] Abell takes the second rank without fuss Bran goes where I point and hates it Fathers in old coats, still aiming Give me a place in that line [verse] Hold, I say, and they hold true I hate how the old words return Twenty years the spade sat by my door The voice comes back faster than the hands We keep the field. I sleep badly Morning, someone still has to count sheep I'll leave the wider plan to you I came to keep the living standing [pre-chorus] You need even voices in the line Frightened men hold to a steady count I can give you that, Perrin Keep the hammer. Let me serve [chorus] I'm here for our boys, give me a place Point at a ridge. I will stand I'm here for our boys, give me a place I came to keep them breathing, Perrin I'm here for our boys, give me a place Point at a ridge. I will stand I'm here for our boys, give me a place I came to keep them breathing, Perrin [post-chorus] Abell takes the second rank without fuss Bran goes where I point and hates it Fathers in old coats, still aiming Give me a place in that line [bridge] Do not send me home to wait That is the ask I am ashamed of I cannot wait on lists of names If our boys stand in the open I want my bow in line with them You lead. I am asking leave Give me a dull job and a clear order I will not make a legend [chorus] I'm here for our boys, give me a place Point at a ridge. I will stand I'm here for our boys, give me a place I came to keep them breathing, Perrin I'm here for our boys, give me a place Point at a ridge. I will stand I'm here for our boys, give me a place I came to keep them breathing, Perrin [outro] When it is done I will take the flock Until then, use what I remember Our boys are in this. So am I I'm here for our boys, give me a place

[intro] Late light. A ladder lies in the grass I know the way you hold your hands I point to the stool I dragged outside Sit a while, the apples can wait [verse] You stop at the gate like a stranger I stand up slower than I mean to The north rows only care about frost They have not heard a single rumor I fetch the second stool from the shed I cut cheese and the last bread You start to speak. I shake my head Eat first. We have talked enough [pre-chorus] You look older than I prayed you would I look like a man who waited anyway There is nothing we must settle first Sit. Let the day be small [chorus] Sit a while, the apples can wait The baskets can stay in the grass Sit a while, the apples can wait I want you living and ordinary, son Sit a while, the apples can wait The baskets can stay in the grass Sit a while, the apples can wait I want you living and ordinary, son [post-chorus] I brought a cup out for you Your stool has the short leg, sit Stay until the light leaves the trees Sit a while, the apples can wait [verse] You ask after the flock first I tell you which ewe broke the fence Baskets can wait under the trees We find a word, then lose it, then smile I watch your hands remember the work You watch me like I might vanish I am still here. The gate is open You can come back through it any day [pre-chorus] You look older than I prayed you would I look like a man who waited anyway There is nothing we must settle first Sit. Let the day be small [chorus] Sit a while, the apples can wait The baskets can stay in the grass Sit a while, the apples can wait I want you living and ordinary, son Sit a while, the apples can wait The baskets can stay in the grass Sit a while, the apples can wait I want you living and ordinary, son [post-chorus] I brought a cup out for you Your stool has the short leg, sit Stay until the light leaves the trees Sit a while, the apples can wait [bridge] I don't need the whole of what you carry I need you on this stool till dusk If the world still wants you tomorrow It can wait in the lane like anyone I want a boring hour with you Keep the big talk out of this grass Just you eating apples too early And me not asking you to be more [chorus] Sit a while, the apples can wait The baskets can stay in the grass Sit a while, the apples can wait I want you living and ordinary, son Sit a while, the apples can wait The baskets can stay in the grass Sit a while, the apples can wait I want you living and ordinary, son [outro] Stay till the light leaves the boughs I will not rush you back to the lane This hour is all I want from you Sit a while, the apples can wait

[intro] I closed the book on the last page Lews, you called it a living world I called it a wheel that cuts I don't want to come back again [verse] I stood at the window till morning Watched the same street fill and empty A woman lost her child last spring I heard her name in another year You argued the Pattern still learns, Lews I asked who keeps the ledger then You smiled like the answer was obvious I put my notes in the fire [pre-chorus] You want me to love the turning You want me to sign my name I refuse to praise this machine It only repeats the same crying [chorus] I don't want to come back again I already know how this grief ends I don't want to come back again Let my name stay on the last page I don't want to come back again I already know how this grief ends I don't want to come back again Let my name stay on the last page [post-chorus] I will not take another morning I will not walk that street twice I will not learn her name again I don't want to come back again [verse] I walked out of the lecture hall Left the chalk on the black slate The students waited for better proof I had already given them mine Paaran Disen shone like a promise I could not live inside it I packed one coat and the old papers I did not lock the door [pre-chorus] You want me to love the turning You want me to sign my name I refuse to praise this machine It only repeats the same crying [chorus] I don't want to come back again I already know how this grief ends I don't want to come back again Let my name stay on the last page I don't want to come back again I already know how this grief ends I don't want to come back again Let my name stay on the last page [post-chorus] I will not take another morning I will not walk that street twice I will not learn her name again I don't want to come back again [bridge] I loved the work when I was young I thought a true mind could unmake it I wanted rest more than I wanted right That is the part I never said You will call it despair and walk on You will call it a clever sickness I call it the only honest sentence I don't want another life after this [chorus] I don't want to come back again I already know how this grief ends I don't want to come back again Let my name stay on the last page I don't want to come back again I already know how this grief ends I don't want to come back again Let my name stay on the last page [outro] Lews, keep the world if you must I am finished arguing the case Close the book and leave me out I don't want to come back again

[intro] Word came that the floating sphere had fallen They called the opening a terrible wound I heard them speak and thought of rest Leave it open, I want it to end [verse] They brought the news through shaking mouths A force beyond the powers we knew Mierin and Beidomon had reached it And broken what had held it out You talked of all the lives in danger I heard a door swing open at last You wanted someone who could close it I wanted this to be the last age [pre-chorus] They will try to stitch it shut They will name the hole a wound Mercy looks like this to me I am already walking into it [chorus] Leave it open, I want it to end I have waited my whole long life Leave it open, I want it to end Let this age be the last one Leave it open, I want it to end I have waited my whole long life Leave it open, I want it to end Let this age be the last one [post-chorus] Do not seal the light away Do not send me back to work I chose the dark on purpose Leave it open, I want it to end [verse] In time I chose to serve the Shadow I knew what kind of choice I made Mierin still wanted all its power I wanted nothing waiting after death I put my name beside the ending I could not call that courage then They asked me how I lived with it I heard their fear and felt relieved [pre-chorus] They will try to stitch it shut They will name the hole a wound Mercy looks like this to me I am already walking into it [chorus] Leave it open, I want it to end I have waited my whole long life Leave it open, I want it to end Let this age be the last one Leave it open, I want it to end I have waited my whole long life Leave it open, I want it to end Let this age be the last one [post-chorus] Do not seal the light away Do not send me back to work I chose the dark on purpose Leave it open, I want it to end [bridge] I did not make that opening myself I heard what they had done and chose The shame is that I needed her I needed someone else to break it Annihilation still looks like kindness here You will fight me on that word If rest requires the world to stop I am asking for that rest [chorus] Leave it open, I want it to end I have waited my whole long life Leave it open, I want it to end Let this age be the last one Leave it open, I want it to end I have waited my whole long life Leave it open, I want it to end Let this age be the last one [outro] The choice still warms me like a fever My mind returns to that same hope Do not close what she opened Leave it open, I want it to end

[intro] The shutters were a different wood Dust had settled on my hands I asked the year. Nobody knew me. I wake, and you're all dead again [verse] I sat up in a rented bed The inn sign wore a different name I walked the street I used to rule New stone had buried what I knew I said a colleague's name out loud A boy selling bread just stared I bought the loaf and kept walking I could not find one familiar door [pre-chorus] I only slept a little while The city did the rest without me I came back looking for your faces I found stone and other names [chorus] I wake, and you're all dead again I learn the year from a stranger I wake, and you're all dead again I am the only one still here I wake, and you're all dead again I learn the year from a stranger I wake, and you're all dead again I am the only one still here [post-chorus] Do not wait for me this time I cannot keep you through the dark I open my eyes to empty rooms I wake, and you're all dead again [verse] Long years later I woke hungry The wars I started were only songs I asked a soldier who had won He named a king I never met I wrote one letter to a grave Then burned it in the same grate I keep losing the same people I keep opening the same eyes [pre-chorus] I only slept a little while The city did the rest without me I came back looking for your faces I found stone and other names [chorus] I wake, and you're all dead again I learn the year from a stranger I wake, and you're all dead again I am the only one still here I wake, and you're all dead again I learn the year from a stranger I wake, and you're all dead again I am the only one still here [post-chorus] Do not wait for me this time I cannot keep you through the dark I open my eyes to empty rooms I wake, and you're all dead again [bridge] I told myself I wanted sleep I told myself the dark was rest Then I woke inside the daylight Just to see if you had stayed The ugly fact is I miss you I fail even at finishing death I come back to count the graves I come back to miss you worse [chorus] I wake, and you're all dead again I learn the year from a stranger I wake, and you're all dead again I am the only one still here I wake, and you're all dead again I learn the year from a stranger I wake, and you're all dead again I am the only one still here [outro] The quiet years still ate you whole I only catch the ends of lives I open my eyes. The street is new. I wake, and you're all dead again

[intro] I put the fire where eyes should be You were a boy in a narrow bed I leaned in close enough to burn Be afraid, it makes you listen [verse] I filled your sleep with a red room I said your father was a lie You reached for a blade you did not own You still woke shaking at dawn I needed you to hear the argument You would not sit for a lecture So I wore the name the world fears And I sat on a false stone throne [pre-chorus] Look at me when I am talking Put the farm out of your head I came through sleep to make you yield Open your eyes and hold still [chorus] Be afraid, it makes you listen I have no other way to you Be afraid, it makes you listen Kneel before the fire and stay Be afraid, it makes you listen I have no other way to you Be afraid, it makes you listen Kneel before the fire and stay [post-chorus] If you sleep, I will be waiting If you run, I know the road Fear is the door I can open Be afraid, it makes you listen [verse] At Falme you cut me and I laughed I took the wound back into darkness The mask grows heavier when I wear it I still put it on to reach you You named me Ba'alzamon in the dark I let the name do the work I need you to stop the fighting I need you to sit and hear [pre-chorus] Look at me when I am talking Put the farm out of your head I came through sleep to make you yield Open your eyes and hold still [chorus] Be afraid, it makes you listen I have no other way to you Be afraid, it makes you listen Kneel before the fire and stay Be afraid, it makes you listen I have no other way to you Be afraid, it makes you listen Kneel before the fire and stay [post-chorus] If you sleep, I will be waiting If you run, I know the road Fear is the door I can open Be afraid, it makes you listen [bridge] The throne is borrowed, and I'm tired I sit in a chair when the dream ends Fear is the only tool that works I use it because you will not sit I hate that I have to scare you I hate that reason never worked If you would hear me without shaking I would take the mask off now [chorus] Be afraid, it makes you listen I have no other way to you Be afraid, it makes you listen Kneel before the fire and stay Be afraid, it makes you listen I have no other way to you Be afraid, it makes you listen Kneel before the fire and stay [outro] Rand, put the sword down and hear me The world does not deserve another turn I will haunt you till you answer Be afraid, it makes you listen

[intro] I've pictured you mending a net by a door I knew the set of your shoulders You did not look up from the work Turn around, it's me again [verse] I followed you out of the last age Into a field at first light Dirt still under your nails, Lews A shepherd's coat on a lord's bones I stood in the dream and said your name You woke like a boy in fright I could have ended it with a blade I wanted you to know my face [pre-chorus] Do not pretend you have forgotten me I have kept every word you said The old argument is still open I came back to finish this talk [chorus] Turn around, it's me again We never closed the last hard talk Turn around, it's me again I will not let you walk off Turn around, it's me again We never closed the last hard talk Turn around, it's me again I will not let you walk off [post-chorus] I find you by the same doorway I find you turning the same back Look at me once before you run Turn around, it's me again [verse] I've pictured you shoeing a horse Or counting fish by a crowded dock Some other name would keep you hidden You would turn away and keep working The chase used to feel like a proof I was sure I would win the point I am only walking behind you I am only asking you to look [pre-chorus] Do not pretend you have forgotten me I have kept every word you said The old argument is still open I came back to finish this talk [chorus] Turn around, it's me again We never closed the last hard talk Turn around, it's me again I will not let you walk off Turn around, it's me again We never closed the last hard talk Turn around, it's me again I will not let you walk off [post-chorus] I find you by the same doorway I find you turning the same back Look at me once before you run Turn around, it's me again [bridge] I would rather have been wrong once I swallow that sentence every time If you had a better answer, Lews I could have laid the hunt down I keep coming because you keep living I keep talking because you keep hoping Set it down as a war if you must I came because I cannot stop [chorus] Turn around, it's me again We never closed the last hard talk Turn around, it's me again I will not let you walk off Turn around, it's me again We never closed the last hard talk Turn around, it's me again I will not let you walk off [outro] The field is empty. You ran again. I will be here when you come back Go sleep and work and save your people Turn around, it's me again

[intro] The lungs filled before I consented Younger hands. They do not shake yet. I tasted air like a punishment They gave me breath, I asked for nothing [verse] I woke on a stone slab, already dressed Someone had combed this borrowed hair I sat up and hated the heartbeat I counted it like a jailer would They put a name on me: Moridin Death, as if the joke were kind I walked the length of a cold hall I could not find a door that opened [pre-chorus] I wanted the dark to keep me I wanted the last sleep to hold You pulled me back by the collar You called it a gift and smiled [chorus] They gave me breath, I asked for nothing You locked me in a younger body They gave me breath, I asked for nothing Take the air back out of me They gave me breath, I asked for nothing You locked me in a younger body They gave me breath, I asked for nothing Take the air back out of me [post-chorus] I did not pray for a second life I did not bargain for these lungs Unmake the mouth that has to speak They gave me breath, I asked for nothing [verse] The True Power sits in the blood now It tastes like copper and old smoke I reach for it and the chain tightens I still reach, because the body wants Four hours of sleep, then the gray hour I lie still and watch the shutters Light comes whether I consent or not I turn my face to the wall [pre-chorus] I wanted the dark to keep me I wanted the last sleep to hold You pulled me back by the collar You called it a gift and smiled [chorus] They gave me breath, I asked for nothing You locked me in a younger body They gave me breath, I asked for nothing Take the air back out of me They gave me breath, I asked for nothing You locked me in a younger body They gave me breath, I asked for nothing Take the air back out of me [post-chorus] I did not pray for a second life I did not bargain for these lungs Unmake the mouth that has to speak They gave me breath, I asked for nothing [bridge] I took the title Nae'blis anyway Shame does not rinse out of this If I must live, I will sit first I told myself it was only strategy It was easier than refusing again It was easier than asking to die I wanted oblivion. I took a throne. I still want the breath to stop [chorus] They gave me breath, I asked for nothing You locked me in a younger body They gave me breath, I asked for nothing Take the air back out of me They gave me breath, I asked for nothing You locked me in a younger body They gave me breath, I asked for nothing Take the air back out of me [outro] Call me Moridin if you need a name The grave I walked into walked back I never asked to wake in this They gave me breath, I asked for nothing

[intro] The lamp is burning low again The Fisher lies wounded in the center I take the empty player's chair Move the piece, I still end up here [verse] I set the wounded figure down One hand pressed hard against his side I slide a piece to close his road The square fills anyway behind him I drink cold tea and start again Black on my left, white on my right I tell myself I am the player My own piece sits on a painted square [pre-chorus] I moved the boy. I moved the kings. I moved the men who swore to me The board still faces the same way I still sit in the same chair [chorus] Move the piece, I still end up here The Fisher bleeds on the same square Move the piece, I still end up here I cannot lift him off the board Move the piece, I still end up here The Fisher bleeds on the same square Move the piece, I still end up here I cannot lift him off the board [post-chorus] Turn the board and change the opening Give the center, then take the edge The wounded man is still waiting Move the piece, I still end up here [verse] His pain crossed into this borrowed hand I wrap this wrist, the skin still whole We made a knot I had not planned I feel him flinch when I reach I put the Fisher one square toward dark Then I put him back toward light I cannot tell which move is mine I cannot tell which move is his [pre-chorus] I moved the boy. I moved the kings. I moved the men who swore to me The board still faces the same way I still sit in the same chair [chorus] Move the piece, I still end up here The Fisher bleeds on the same square Move the piece, I still end up here I cannot lift him off the board Move the piece, I still end up here The Fisher bleeds on the same square Move the piece, I still end up here I cannot lift him off the board [post-chorus] Turn the board and change the opening Give the center, then take the edge The wounded man is still waiting Move the piece, I still end up here [bridge] I liked believing I ran the game I sold that lie into the dark I occupy a square like he does I wait for a hand I cannot see If I am only another piece Then all this hunting was a circuit I still move him. He still moves me. I still end up in this chair [chorus] Move the piece, I still end up here The Fisher bleeds on the same square Move the piece, I still end up here I cannot lift him off the board Move the piece, I still end up here The Fisher bleeds on the same square Move the piece, I still end up here I cannot lift him off the board [outro] The lamp gutters. I do not stand. The Fisher keeps his wounded side Play it through. Play it again. Move the piece, I still end up here

[intro] The rock is warm under my palm You stand there with the sword still drawn Hear me once without the hope Stop the Wheel, let me be done [verse] You came with the sword in your hand I faced you by the broken stone I offered you the only mercy A sleep that does not start again You looked at me like I had insulted Every person you still mean to save You set your jaw the way Lews did I knew you would not take my hand [pre-chorus] Rand, put the hope down a minute Count the graves with me this once You return as miller and murderer You will not remember the cost [chorus] Stop the Wheel, let me be done I am asking you for real rest Stop the Wheel, let me be done Do not spin me into another life Stop the Wheel, let me be done I am asking you for real rest Stop the Wheel, let me be done Do not spin me into another life [post-chorus] Do not send me into the next age Do not dress me in a new name I have finished every version of this Stop the Wheel, let me be done [verse] You call the turning a kind of hope I have counted the turnings anyway A man died at Manetheren once His children sang him down to dust Nobody asked him the first time Nobody will ask him the fourth You will refuse me. I already see it. You will choose the world and walk [pre-chorus] Rand, put the hope down a minute Count the graves with me this once You return as miller and murderer You will not remember the cost [chorus] Stop the Wheel, let me be done I am asking you for real rest Stop the Wheel, let me be done Do not spin me into another life Stop the Wheel, let me be done I am asking you for real rest Stop the Wheel, let me be done Do not spin me into another life [post-chorus] Do not send me into the next age Do not dress me in a new name I have finished every version of this Stop the Wheel, let me be done [bridge] I cannot speak for the woman in the street I cannot speak for the boy with bread That is the hole in the argument I want rest, so I want it for all You will call that a theft of their lives And you are right. I know you are. I still cannot bear another waking I still put the demand in your hands [chorus] Stop the Wheel, let me be done I am asking you for real rest Stop the Wheel, let me be done Do not spin me into another life Stop the Wheel, let me be done I am asking you for real rest Stop the Wheel, let me be done Do not spin me into another life [outro] The rock stays warm. You will not take it. Go on then. Save your turning world. I will be the dark that asked you Stop the Wheel, let me be done

[intro] The west room still smelled like new wood Ilyena, you sat with your back to the light He slept with one small fist in my shirt I named him after my father [verse] I woke before the lamps came on You were already watching from the chair He made a small sound against my chest You laughed and claimed those eyes as yours I pressed my mouth against his hair I held him to the window in the morning I said the world would never touch him You told me not to make it grand [pre-chorus] You asked me why I chose it then I said my father would have liked him You put your hand across my mouth The garden was still dark and wet [chorus] I named him after my father Then I burned them both out of the world I named him after my father The west room is empty. Answer me I named him after my father Then I burned them both out of the world I named him after my father The west room is empty. Answer me [post-chorus] The cradle folded the way paper folds His fist was still closed when it stopped Boy. I am speaking to you Get up [verse] saidin came up in my blood like a tide Oil on it. Rot in the teeth. I drank The nursery went white. The walls went soft I do not remember the weave I used I remember the quiet after And your hair on the stone I walked room to room until nothing answered Even the roses had gone still [hysterical laughing] ha I named him ha ha ha Get up [pre-chorus] You asked me why I chose it then I said my father would have liked him You put your hand across my mouth The garden was still dark and wet [chorus] I named him after my father Then I burned them both out of the world I named him after my father The west room is empty. Answer me I named him after my father Then I burned them both out of the world I named him after my father The west room is empty. Answer me [post-chorus] The cradle folded the way paper folds His fist was still closed when it stopped Boy. I am speaking to you Get up [bridge] I would take it back thread by thread I would unhappen the morning if the Power knew how I cannot die enough. Light, I have tried You had her mouth. You will not open it The Hall can keep Lord of the Morning I have no use for it Ilyena. Ilyena. Look at me I am still holding the weave [chorus] I named him after my father Then I burned them both out of the world I named him after my father The west room is empty. Answer me I named him after my father Then I burned them both out of the world I named him after my father The west room is empty. Answer me [outro] Ilyena I named him after my father Get up I named him after my father

[intro] It starts as a film on the river saidin still bright underneath, and wrong Copper. Old oil. The Light in my mouth Ilyena, it is already speaking [verse] I came home from the mountain with the seals I told you the Bore was closed at last You reached to take the cloak from my shoulders I stepped back. I would not let you The prison we shut is leaking in my teeth It speaks in your cadence first As if you were standing in the hall When I answer, it is already laughing [whisper] You may do as you like in your own house Lews Do as you like Do as you like [pre-chorus] Look at my hands, Ilyena, look They still know every weave I used It wore your mouth to tell me And I did. And it was pleased [chorus] The taint whispers and I listen It borrowed your mouth in the hall The taint whispers and I listen I put my hands on everyone here The taint whispers and I listen It borrowed your mouth in the hall The taint whispers and I listen I put my hands on everyone here [post-chorus] Keep the boy out of this hallway It already knows these rooms Copper. Oil. Your cadence I am still listening [verse] It told me I was First Among Servants That the Hundred Companions rode because I asked That these hands were enough without the women And the Bore would close if I was only bold We struck. We sealed. Something came back through A gift for every man who seized the Source It hummed while I walked the palace halls It opened the door I was already holding [pre-chorus] Look at my hands, Ilyena, look They still know every weave I used It wore your mouth to tell me And I did. And it was pleased [chorus] The taint whispers and I listen It borrowed your mouth in the hall The taint whispers and I listen I put my hands on everyone here The taint whispers and I listen It borrowed your mouth in the hall The taint whispers and I listen I put my hands on everyone here [post-chorus] Keep the boy out of this hallway It already knows these rooms Copper. Oil. Your cadence I am still listening [bridge] Sometimes I think the whisper is mine The part that knew what I would do That waited in the weave at Shayol Ghul And came home in my blood to you Ilyena, it used your mouth Oil on the Light. Rot on the Light If I stop listening you are alone So I do not stop [hysterical laughing] ha Do as you like ha ha [chorus] The taint whispers and I listen It borrowed your mouth in the hall The taint whispers and I listen I put my hands on everyone here The taint whispers and I listen It borrowed your mouth in the hall The taint whispers and I listen I put my hands on everyone here [outro] Oil on the Light Rot on the Light Ilyena I can still taste it

[intro] The silence came first, then the color Red against white stone, spreading slow My hands were still warm from the weaving Ilyena, I am looking. I cannot stop [verse] I stood in the hall I had raised myself And did not know the morning saidin still singing, still foul in the teeth Elan Morin put my mind back in my skull So I could look. So I could see you You lay where the garden met the stone Golden hair. The dress the color of spring I called Ilyena three times, then four [pre-chorus] I thought the mountain was the danger I carried it home in my hands The children were scattered in the rooms I built those rooms for laughter [chorus] Blood on the Dragon, blood on the stone You are still in the garden Blood on the Dragon, blood on my hands Elan Morin made me look Blood on the Dragon, blood on the stone You are still in the garden Blood on the Dragon, blood on my hands Elan Morin made me look [hysterical laughing] ha Look ha ha ha He gave it back so I could see [post-chorus] I walked through every room I made A cup on its side. Water in the grain Sit up. The dress is still spring Sit up [verse] A cup had fallen over on its side The water had not dried into the boards I went from one room to the next Oldest to youngest, as at supper I knelt and could not lift a hand I had already lifted them enough These same hands had brushed your hair They are still red. They are still mine [pre-chorus] I thought the mountain was the danger I carried it home in my hands The children were scattered in the rooms I built those rooms for laughter [chorus] Blood on the Dragon, blood on the stone You are still in the garden Blood on the Dragon, blood on my hands Elan Morin made me look Blood on the Dragon, blood on the stone You are still in the garden Blood on the Dragon, blood on my hands Elan Morin made me look [post-chorus] I walked through every room I made A cup on its side. Water in the grain Sit up. The dress is still spring Sit up [bridge] They will say I screamed and the earth cracked open That a mountain rose from a man who had nothing left I do not remember screaming I remember standing there Looking at my hands and knowing Ilyena Therin Moerelle You are still on the stone if I look Do not make me look [chorus] Blood on the Dragon, blood on the stone You are still in the garden Blood on the Dragon, blood on my hands Elan Morin made me look Blood on the Dragon, blood on the stone You are still in the garden Blood on the Dragon, blood on my hands Elan Morin made me look [outro] Ilyena I am looking I am looking Sit up

[intro] Ilyena, you are in the doorway still Hands at your sides. Golden hair unpinned You saw me coming with the Power on me And you did not run [verse] I had already finished the rest of them The children on the landing. The servants on the stair Your mouth moved once. I think you said Lews The way you said it when I came home late from the Hall You saw the Power on my hands and you did not shut the door You stood in the doorway as if I were still your husband I used it on you anyway Golden hair. The boards. I am still here [pre-chorus] If you cried out I will not survive it I make the quiet so I can stand Ilyena, you are in the doorway still Tell me you did not [chorus] Tell me she never screamed You stood in the doorway and waited Tell me she never screamed Ilyena, I will not hear it Tell me she never screamed You stood in the doorway and waited Tell me she never screamed Ilyena, I will not hear it [post-chorus] I brush the hair back from your face The Power is still in my hands You never. You never. You never Say it [verse] The Power roared against the east stone The east wing fell beyond the wall I could not hear a voice through that I may have heard you. I may not I keep returning to this same door I cannot make you turn your head Blood I can keep Not that [pre-chorus] If you cried out I will not survive it I make the quiet so I can stand Ilyena, you are in the doorway still Tell me you did not [chorus] Tell me she never screamed You stood in the doorway and waited Tell me she never screamed Ilyena, I will not hear it Tell me she never screamed You stood in the doorway and waited Tell me she never screamed Ilyena, I will not hear it [post-chorus] I brush the hair back from your face The Power is still in my hands You never. You never. You never Say it [bridge] I do not know. I never knew If you had called I might have stopped That is the thought Nobody living can tell me this Ilyena Therin Moerelle. Light of my morning Open your mouth No. Do not. Do not I have to be sure of it [whisper] You never You never You never [chorus] Tell me she never screamed You stood in the doorway and waited Tell me she never screamed Ilyena, I will not hear it Tell me she never screamed You stood in the doorway and waited Tell me she never screamed Ilyena, I will not hear it [outro] Ilyena You never You never I am sure of it. I have to be

[intro] The wine is still waiting in the hall White roses on the tablecloth you liked The people at the feast are gone And I am making that sound again [verse] A feast-day bill lies beside the bread The seal upon the wax is mine Lamb, sweet wine, bread for the children White roses because you loved them I signed under the flowers And then I ended the room The lists outlived the household The bill is lying by your cup [pre-chorus] If I laugh I stay standing If I stop for one full breath The screaming starts and does not leave Ilyena, laugh. Come on. Laugh [chorus] Laugh with me now. Laugh with the Dragon If I stop I start screaming Laugh with me now. Laugh with the Dragon The roses are still on the cloth Laugh with me now. Laugh with the Dragon If I stop I start screaming Laugh with me now. Laugh with the Dragon The roses are still on the cloth [hysterical laughing] ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Come on [post-chorus] Lord of the Morning had a feast Kinslayer is sitting in your chair Laugh with me now. Ilyena, laugh There is no one left to hear it [verse] I killed the ones who called me friend The ones who called me father too Elan Morin smiled when he gave me my mind So I could see the punchline standing up I sit down in your usual chair The roses brush against my sleeve I try to close my mouth on it The laugh comes out before the cry [pre-chorus] If I laugh I stay standing If I stop for one full breath The screaming starts and does not leave Ilyena, laugh. Come on. Laugh [chorus] Laugh with me now. Laugh with the Dragon If I stop I start screaming Laugh with me now. Laugh with the Dragon The roses are still on the cloth Laugh with me now. Laugh with the Dragon If I stop I start screaming Laugh with me now. Laugh with the Dragon The roses are still on the cloth [hysterical laughing] ha ha ha ha Ilyena ha ha [post-chorus] Lord of the Morning had a feast Kinslayer is sitting in your chair Laugh with me now. Ilyena, laugh There is no one left to hear it [bridge] I am not glad. Do not mistake this I laugh because the screaming is worse I took saidin until the earth had to move I drew until the rock rose under me The roses. The list. The boy in the west room Ilyena, I am coming down through stone I am trying to leave. The Wheel will not let me White roses. White roses. White roses [chorus] Laugh with me now. Laugh with the Dragon If I stop I start screaming Laugh with me now. Laugh with the Dragon The roses are still on the cloth Laugh with me now. Laugh with the Dragon If I stop I start screaming Laugh with me now. Laugh with the Dragon The roses are still on the cloth [outro] Ilyena White roses I am laughing Do not believe it

[intro] Paaran Disen. The white room. Glass rods I remember when it burned clean Ilyena asked me how the Power felt I could not find the words all night [verse] The first time I touched the Source It was a river of Light in the blood They said I was the strongest of the Age First Among Servants. Lord of the Morning They did not say the river could be poisoned They did not say a prison could spit Back through the weave into a man's mouth I stand in the wreck of our hall and take it anyway [pre-chorus] I want an undoing I cannot have I want the morning put back I reach because the grief is worse I reach because I know the way [chorus] saidin burns. It always burns Oil in the current. I drink it saidin burns. It always burns I am going to pull the day back saidin burns. It always burns Oil in the current. I drink it saidin burns. It always burns I am going to pull the day back [post-chorus] You reach for Light and pull back oil I remember that and still I take it The Companions are screaming in it There is no weave that gives you back [verse] Ilyena, I am going to take it I know that is the last mistake I want to pull the day back through it Unburned halls. You in the chair. The boy at the window I still hear the Companions screaming I hear them in the current still I raised these halls with a thought Then the same fire ate the halls [pre-chorus] I want an undoing I cannot have I want the morning put back I reach because the grief is worse I reach because I know the way [chorus] saidin burns. It always burns Oil in the current. I drink it saidin burns. It always burns I am going to pull the day back saidin burns. It always burns Oil in the current. I drink it saidin burns. It always burns I am going to pull the day back [post-chorus] You reach for Light and pull back oil I remember that and still I take it The Companions are screaming in it There is no weave that gives you back [bridge] I am Lews Therin Telamon Your husband. Hear me The Hundred Companions drank with me The Bore closed and the counterstroke came I was the first cup. I was the fullest You were in these halls. He was in these halls I do not want a legend, Ilyena I want the burning to undo it [screaming] Come back through it Come back [chorus] saidin burns. It always burns Oil in the current. I drink it saidin burns. It always burns I am going to pull the day back saidin burns. It always burns Oil in the current. I drink it saidin burns. It always burns I am going to pull the day back [outro] It burns It always burns Ilyena I leave and I take it with me

[intro] We met beneath the Council lamps I counted what the wards would do I told them we could close the Bore I gave my word and took the seals [verse] Ilyena, I left you in the garden I said the mountain would not follow You asked me if these walls would hold I kissed your mouth and said they would The women would not come. They would not link I told the Hundred we would finish it Nobody put you in the planning I believed my own mouth then [pre-chorus] Nobody asked you for your life You had a garden and a day I signed the world away that morning And brought the knife inside our door [chorus] I said we'd be safe You are not in the garden I said we'd be safe I came back with the seals and the knife I said we'd be safe You are not in the garden I said we'd be safe I came back with the seals and the knife [post-chorus] The seals held. That is not safety The men went mad on the mountain I said these walls would hold You do not answer from the door [verse] I sealed Him with the Hundred Companions We closed the Bore and something oily Came back through every man who held the flow I came home whole of purpose And left no one to greet me I promised him he would keep the morning I promised you I would be back by dawn I walked those rooms and ended both [pre-chorus] Nobody asked you for your life You had a garden and a day I signed the world away that morning And brought the knife inside our door [chorus] I said we'd be safe You are not in the garden I said we'd be safe I came back with the seals and the knife I said we'd be safe You are not in the garden I said we'd be safe I came back with the seals and the knife [post-chorus] The seals held. That is not safety The men went mad on the mountain I said these walls would hold You do not answer from the door [bridge] I did what the Hall would not I broke myself against the Wheel The Dark One bound. The world spared Lews Therin in the ashes I would leave the prison open If it brought you back Ilyena, I am still in that promise I said it, and I made it false with my hands [chorus] I said we'd be safe You are not in the garden I said we'd be safe I came back with the seals and the knife I said we'd be safe You are not in the garden I said we'd be safe I came back with the seals and the knife [outro] Ilyena I said we'd be safe You are not in the garden I was promised you

[intro] Lord of the Morning. Put it down I held the seals against the night I have no further use for them Ilyena, none of this is you [verse] I am tired of being the weapon Tired of being the righteous flame The Pattern can keep its Dragon The Wheel can turn without these hands Madness is not a cliff you step from It is a tide that rose from the sealing Until the man who left you for Shayol Ghul Came home a stranger and used these hands [pre-chorus] Nothing in me wants the world kept I kept it once. I know the worth I would unsave the Age in a breath To have you scold me in that room [chorus] Let the Lord of Chaos rule I would open the Bore for you Let the Lord of Chaos rule Stand up. Scold me. I am here Let the Lord of Chaos rule I would open the Bore for you Let the Lord of Chaos rule Stand up. Scold me. I am here [post-chorus] Keep the seals. Keep the morning Keep every title they hung on me Let the Lord of Chaos rule I am finished asking them [verse] The mountain is calling me One last weaving. One last fire One last scream still in the chest The earth will open and take me A mountain born because a man Had nowhere else to put the Power I hear you under the stone already I am drawing until I end [pre-chorus] Nothing in me wants the world kept I kept it once. I know the worth I would unsave the Age in a breath To have you scold me in that room [chorus] Let the Lord of Chaos rule I would open the Bore for you Let the Lord of Chaos rule Stand up. Scold me. I am here Let the Lord of Chaos rule I would open the Bore for you Let the Lord of Chaos rule Stand up. Scold me. I am here [hysterical laughing] ha I am coming ha ha ha Stand up [post-chorus] Keep the seals. Keep the morning Keep every title they hung on me Let the Lord of Chaos rule I am finished asking them [bridge] I would let the world run wild If that were the price of her That is the shame I mean to say I was the man who saved the Age I would unsave it. I would open it To have her hair under my hands again Ilyena, I am coming down through stone I am not the man who left [chorus] Let the Lord of Chaos rule I would open the Bore for you Let the Lord of Chaos rule Stand up. Scold me. I am here Let the Lord of Chaos rule I would open the Bore for you Let the Lord of Chaos rule Stand up. Scold me. I am here [outro] Ilyena I am coming I am laughing as I go Let the Lord of Chaos rule