Fear Lost My Name Today

Fear lost my name today (lost my name)
Hope called me out of the grave
Shame kept ringing on the phone
But mercy took the page

There's a chair where fear would sit down (that chair)
Every morning by my bed,
Like a clock that read my tomorrow
Before God had ever said.
There's a page with my name crossed out (crossed out)
On a list I didn't write,
But the hand that holds the real book
Wrote me back in overnight.

So the phone can stop its ringing (stop)
With that dread it used to bring —
'Cause a new voice started singing:

Fear lost my name today (lost my name)
Hope called me back by name
Fear used to wake me like a siren
But mercy took the page

My future is not chained (not chained)
To what tried to break my faith —
Fear lost my name today,
I answer now to grace.

Lost my name (lost my name)
Fear don't live here any longer

I packed the chair up in the morning (packed it)
Put the crossed-out page away,
Wrote a new word on the mirror
Where the fear used to stay.
It said "loved" and it said "chosen" —
Now the midnight room can breathe.

Who names your morning? (grace does)
Not fear, not shame, not anymore (grace does)

Over my children while they sleep (over them),
I trace new mornings on the window.
That chair that used to read my future
Can't even spell my name.
Fear signed my house in pencil —
Grace wrote it back in flame.

Fear lost my name today (lost my name)
Hope called me back by name
Fear used to wake me like a siren
But mercy took the page

There's a blank page on the nightstand (blank page)
Where the old story used to be.
I sleep with the windows open —
Now the night's afraid of me.
And the morning came anyway.