Carry The Name

Lyrics They still want us quiet Smile and play our part But truth don’t bow easy When it burns in your heart On the feed, in the hallway They mock what we believe Same old pressure, new clothes Same old chase to make us leave But the flame keeps rising Through the smoke and the fear What they meant to silence Gets louder here Carry the Name Carry the Name When the world turns cold We still say the same Carry the Name Carry the Name They can shake the ground But we won’t break and change They dragged saints to the lions For a prayer and a sign Nero lit the shadows Tried to make truth die Then the chains came later In the Roman dark Yet the gospel kept walking Through every iron mark So when they close the door And they laugh at the cross We remember every witness Every soul they thought was lost Carry the Name Carry the Name When the world turns cold We still say the same Carry the Name Carry the Name They can shake the ground But we won’t break and change Now it’s phones and headlines Mocking what is holy A joke in the comments A law that wants us lonely They call conviction backward They call mercy weak But a bound-up heart gets stronger When it learns to speak In the purge and the prison In the ash and the blade From the catacombs upward Faith was never made To be safe in the palace To be fine with the trend It was forged in the furnace And it will stand again If they drag us to the margins We’ll sing from the edge If they shut every platform Truth will still be bred From a mother’s prayer From a kid who won’t fold From a church in the ruin Still burning bold Oh-oh, we remember Oh-oh, we remain So keep your head up steady When the pressure moves in This road was made for the faithful Not for fitting in From Stephen in the street To the martyrs in the rain To the kid in the classroom We still carry the Name Carry the Name Carry the Name When the world turns cold We still say the same Carry the Name Carry the Name They can shake the ground But we won’t break and change Carry the Name Carry the Name Through the fire and fear We’re still unashamed Carry the Name Carry the Name Jesus stays our hope And He still reigns