Intro
Not our first morning
Not our first light
Just the rain on the window
And a pale Dublin white
Verse 1
I wake up where your childhood
Still lingers in the walls
Posters, dust, and daylight
You show me your ghosts down the hall
This bed once held your dreaming
Before the world knew my name
Before the roads, before the distance
Before the fire found the flame
Morning lays its copper
In your hair, beside you
The room that knew you first
Before I ever tried to
Pre-Chorus
The house is still sleeping
The street has not begun
Just the sheets, the light, your breathing
And the quiet after us
Chorus
Not our first morning
But never one like this
Your old room breathing round us
With your warmth against my skin
Let the coffee wait
Let the daylight stay outside
I don't need the whole world yet
Just this room, your breath, this light
Verse 2
This ain't the first time waking up close
But the clock's already turned
There's a road past this window
And a north I haven't earned
I owe you cold hills for these green ones
I owe you stone for this glass
But not yet, not this morning
Let the leaving come last
There are echoes in the hallway
Little footsteps in the past
Your younger laugh still hiding
In the light behind the glass
And I'm lying here beside you
Where your younger dreams began
I stepped inside a story
That was yours before my name
I trace a smile across your shoulder
Slow enough to make you stir
You pretend you're still dreaming
But your smile gives you away
Pre-Chorus
Your world is all around me
Not as myth, not as a sign
Just a pillow, keys, and daylight
And your shoulder touching mine
Chorus
Not our first morning
But never one like this
Your old room breathing round us
With your warmth against my skin
Let the coffee wait
Let the daylight stay outside
I don't need the whole world yet
Just this room, your breath, this light
Breakdown
Don't wake the house!
Don't break the light!
Don't let the world
Crawl back inside!
Not just a room!
Not just a bed!
I woke beside your past
With your warmth against my chest!
No crown!
No oath!
No sacred words!
Just this room, this skin
Before the heather burns!
Before the heather burns!
Before the heather burns!
Final Chorus
Not our first morning
But never one like this
Your old room breathing round us
With your warmth against my skin
Let the coffee wait
Let the daylight stay outside
I don't need the whole world yet
Just this room, your breath, this light
Outro
Not our first morning
But the last of its kind
Soon the road, soon the water
Soon we leave this behind
Stay a little longer
Let the daylight wait
Then I'll take you northward
Where the heather waits