Goyo, Turn the Handle

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Goyo, you keep the porch light burning Though nobody said they’d come Dust on the blue glass window Rain on the old tin drum You fold the map by the river Point where the road runs thin Carry a name like a small stone Warm from the shape of your hand [Pre-Chorus] If the night asks where you’re going Tell it anywhere but back There’s a door beneath the garden And a key inside the crack [Chorus] Goyo, turn the handle slowly Let the whole room learn your name Goyo, leave the past behind you It can’t follow through the flame When the morning finds your footsteps Past the fence and past the snow You’ll be more than what they called you You’ll be Goyo, you’ll be Goyo [Verse 2] Three coins under the floorboard A photograph without a face The kettle clicks in the kitchen Like it remembers the place You say the town has gone quiet I say it’s holding its breath Some roads are made out of leaving Some are made out of regret [Pre-Chorus] If the night asks where you’re going Tell it anywhere but back There’s a door beneath the garden And a key inside the crack [Chorus] Goyo, turn the handle slowly Let the whole room learn your name Goyo, leave the past behind you It can’t follow through the flame When the morning finds your footsteps Past the fence and past the snow You’ll be more than what they called you You’ll be Goyo, you’ll be Goyo [Bridge] No trumpet, no parade Just your shadow in the weeds One breath, then another That is all the heart still needs [Final Chorus] Goyo, turn the handle slowly Let the whole room learn your name Goyo, leave the past behind you It can’t follow through the flame When the morning finds your footsteps Past the fence and past the snow You’ll be more than what they called you You’ll be Goyo, you’ll be Goyo [Outro] Goyo, you keep moving Goyo, you keep moving