When She Says My Name

It don't sound like trouble, it don't sound like shame
When it rolls off her lips, I don't feel the same
A name I used to curse, now I wear like a crown
She says it soft, like a prayer that pulls me off the ground

A thousand folks have said it, but they never meant a thing
Like wind through broken windows or church bells that don't ring
But with her, it's got a rhythm, like a slow Southern rain
There's grace in the syllables when she says my name

It's the way she looks right through me, like she knows the worst and best
It ain't loud, but Lord, it moves me, like a hand across my chest
It don't take a hallelujah or a spotlight flame
I believe in love again when she says my name

It ain't dressed in diamonds, it don't came with a stage
But it pulls me out of silence, like a voice from off the page
It's healing, it's heavy, it's warm, and it's wide
Like she's calling home a part of me I'd buried deep inside

It's the way she looks right through me, like she knows the worst and best
It ain't loud, but Lord, it moves me, like a hand across my chest
It don't take a hallelujah or a spotlight flame
I believe in love again when she says my name

She don't say it out of duty, ain't no script, no rehearsed line
It's like honey on a Sunday, and it saves me every time

It's the way she looks right through me, like she knows just who I am
And I don't have to prove it, she still holds me like a man
No, it don't need angels, don't need fame
I've found my heaven when she says my name
Yeah, I could die a better man when she says my name