Lyrics
[Intro] Light hits the bowl. I am already halfway to the door. [Verse 1] Chair in the corner, her name in the wood, Food going cold like I knew that it would. I put down a spoon like that counts as a stay, Then the road starts talking and I listen too late. She don’t ask me nothing. That’s worse than a fight. Quiet like that has a weight I don’t like. I can walk any map. I can outrun a prayer. I cannot sit still while she dies in that chair. [Pre-Chorus] No thunder. No speech. Just blinds and her breathing out of my reach. [Chorus] This is the dawn and it don’t feel like saving, Just light on a wreck I keep leaving the room. This is the dawn and she’s white-knuckle waking, And I am the fool with a bag and a wound. I say her name like a road I can take, She wears it like weather that won’t let her break. This is the dawn — She’s still here. I almost walked. [Verse 2] Market still rings in the back of my head, A coat on the stones and a man who stayed dead. I got the after. I got the long walk. I got every dock where I practiced my talk. She put on a shine when the dark got a mouth, Cut herself pretty and burned the house down. I saw the glass. I still chose the leaving. Came back to a room that was barely still breathing. [Pre-Chorus 2] I wanted a war I could throw my whole back in. She met the morning alone — that’s the dagger I’m wrapped in. [Chorus] This is the dawn and it don’t feel like saving, Just light on a wreck I keep leaving the room. This is the dawn and she’s white-knuckle waking, And I am the fool with a bag and a wound. I say her name like a road I can take, She wears it like weather that won’t let her break. This is the dawn — She’s still here. I almost walked. [Bridge] Don’t sell me a love that I do from the hallway. Motion is cheap when the floor is the test. My hands learned a doorknob instead of the staying. My feet write a letter and call it the best. If she gets up now I will not make a speech. I will sit. I will shake. I will stay in this seat. [Guitar break] [Final Chorus] This is the dawn and it don’t feel like saving, Just light on a wreck she is lifting alone. This is the dawn and I dropped every errand — Bag on the boards, and my body came home. I say her name like a road I can take, She wears it like weather that won’t let her break. This is the dawn — She’s still here. I stayed. I stayed. [Outro] Morning don’t ask. The door can wait.