Put Her Name on It

Put her name on it
There's room beside the rest

The measurement was wrong until she caught it
Blue pencil running halfway down the page
She stayed until the second pot was empty
I came in late and said we'd had a day
The notebook with the coffee on the cover
Was hers, but mine was on the email chain

Put her name on it
Let the letters take their space
You can stand beside the work
You can't stand in her place

Say it clearly
Let the people hear

They brought us up to talk about the project
The screen behind us only had my name
I started with the story I'd rehearsed there
She looked down and straightened out a page
I could feel the easy version of the evening
Where I took the praise and thanked her on the way

Put her name on it
Let the letters take their space
You can stand beside the work
You can't stand in her place

I wasn't just the man who didn't notice
I liked the way it sounded when they cheered
I said, Before I tell you how we did this
There's somebody who ought to be up here

Put her name on it
Let the letters take their space
You can stand beside the work
You can't stand in her place
Put her name on it
Let the letters take their space
You can stand beside the work
You can't stand in her place

Put her name on it
They changed the slide before we left
She took the blue pencil from my jacket
Said, I've been looking everywhere for this