Carry Your Silence

Lyrics

[Intro] The file had no name Just a room and a key [Verse 1] You came through the service door With rain inside your coat A matchbook from the harbor bar And a number in your throat The guard kept watching channel four You never met his eyes You left a coin beside the glass And took the elevator twice [Pre-Chorus] Who gave you the address? Who told you when to run? The answer waits in someone else's handwriting Under the tongue of a gun [Chorus] Secret agent, carry your silence Past the cameras and the wire If they ask you where you've been Say nowhere, say nowhere With the border burning brighter And the dead drop turning cold You keep one hand upon the truth And one hand on the code [Verse 2] At 4:17, platform nine A woman changed her shoes She slid a photograph across Of a face you couldn't use The train rolled out toward Rotterdam Black windows, empty seats You heard your name in every brake And footsteps underneath [Pre-Chorus] The message had been altered The meeting had been sold A silver thread was tied around the envelope To mark the ones who told [Chorus] Secret agent, carry your silence Past the cameras and the wire If they ask you where you've been Say nowhere, say nowhere With the border burning brighter And the dead drop turning cold You keep one hand upon the truth And one hand on the code [Bridge] Burn the passport in the sink Let the water take the ash There are three men in the hallway And a fourth one in the glass You could disappear by sunrise You could vanish clean and whole But the voice inside the receiver Still knows what you were told [Final Chorus] Secret agent, carry your silence Through the smoke and satellite fire If they ask you what you saw Say nothing, say nothing When the last lock loses power And the safe house starts to fold You keep one hand upon the truth And one hand on the code [Outro] The file had no name The key was never yours You left the coin beside the glass And walked through the closing doors