Chasing Every First Light

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