Verse
Six a.m. and the blinds cut gold
Across your shoulder, still half-asleep
Steam is rising off the cup you hold
Like something soft I'm scared to keep
The radio hums low static and grace
Your fingers laced in the sheets like lace
Pre-Chorus
How do you bottle up a Tuesday
How do you press it flat and save the light
Tell me how I hold this feeling
When the clock keeps climbing toward the night
Chorus
I'm chasing every first light
Running barefoot down the hallway
Just to feel it one more time
This gold that never stays
I'm chasing every first light
Before the shadows learn my name
I'll burn my hands to hold it
Chasing every first light
Verse
The kettle sings and the toast goes cold
Your laugh spills out like a window thrown wide
I'm learning how these mornings fold
Into memory before I've said goodbye
So I'm counting freckles, counting breath
Trying to outrun what comes after this
Pre-Chorus
How do you bottle up a Tuesday
How do you press it flat and save the light
Tell me how I hold this feeling
When the clock keeps climbing toward the night
Chorus
I'm chasing every first light
Running barefoot down the hallway
Just to feel it one more time
This gold that never stays
I'm chasing every first light
Before the shadows learn my name
I'll burn my hands to hold it
Chasing every first light
Bridge
Maybe I don't need to keep it
Maybe letting go's the point
Every sunrise disappearing
Just to prove that we were here at all
So I'll stop counting seconds
Start counting all the mornings still to come
Chorus
I'm chasing every first light
Dancing barefoot down the hallway
Not to hold it, just to shine
While the gold is mine
I'm chasing every first light
Learning shadows know my name
And still I chase it anyway
Chasing every first light
