[Intro - Piano Alone, Then Pads]

[Verse 1 - Mary]
She came while it was dark still
To tend a borrowed grave
She took Him for the gardener
Through everything she gave
Then one word crossed the morning
Just her name, and nothing more
And she knew Him by the saying
Like she'd known Him before

[Chorus]
The signature persists
The marks are in His hands
Risen doesn't mean erased
The story stays in the Man
They knew Him by His wounds
They knew Him by His voice
The scars went up to glory
And heaven kept them, by choice

[Verse 2 - Emmaus]
Two friends on a road at sundown
With a Stranger walking near
Their hearts were burning in them
Though their eyes could not see clear
Then He took the bread and broke it
The oldest hands they knew
And the breaking was the signature
And the Stranger came into view

[Chorus]
The signature persists
The marks are in His hands
Risen doesn't mean erased
The story stays in the Man
They knew Him by His wounds
They knew Him by His voice
The scars went up to glory
And heaven kept them, by choice

[Verse 3 - Thomas]
One man said never, not without
My hand inside the wound
And the Lord came through the locked door
And crossed that upper room
He held His hands out open
Said reach here, and believe
And the doubter dropped to worship
At the scars He didn't need

[Bridge - Barely Above a Whisper]
He kept them
He could have come back seamless
New skin, and nothing shown
He kept them, because the marks are information
The price is in the body
The love is in the grain
The wounds are how His own will know
The Lamb that once was slain

[Final Chorus - Slightly Fuller, Still Gentle]
The signature persists
And yours is going to too
Whatever's carved into your hands
Won't be held against you
The scars that shame you midnight-deep
Will read like glory then
The Author keeps the signatures
Of everyone He pens

[Outro - Piano and Sax, Fading]
Known by the wounds
Known by the voice
Kept
By choice