[Verse 1]
Monday at dawn, the alarm’s crowing on
Ring, ringing the new day in
She’s up out of bed, making breakfast
And dreading heading to work again
She’s tired
[Verse 2]
She steps off of the train and then out in the rain
Carried away on a sea of strangers
Men gaping up from their papers
At ladies weightless as vapors
Make her tired
So tired
[Verse 3]
The telephone calls and the windowless walls
Siphon the life from the halls where all these
Half-human beings sit staring at screens
Repeating routines without meaning
Leaving her tired
So tired
So tired
[Bridge]
She closes the door to her office and sits in her chair (So tired)
And there in the quiet, she hears it
A name she knows from somewhere
[Chorus]
In the aspect of a face
In colors and in shapes
In a fragrance, in a taste
She hears a name, a name, a name
In the melody that plays
Behind the memory of a place
In a kiss, in an embrace
She hears it, a name, a name, a name
And if every passing day is the unfolding of a play
Then the sum of it should say
A name, a name, a name