Better in the Morning Light — Halden Wells

Verse

Screen door slaps and the gravel's warm

Bikes thrown down in the same old form

Popsicle sticks turning red on my tongue

Whole summer stretched out like it just begun

Sixteen years and the sky won't quit

Porch light humming, moths circling it

Pre-Chorus

So what's the rush, what's the hurry for

When the whole wide night's an open door

We got nowhere else we'd rather be

Just this town, just you and me

Chorus

Everything's better in the morning light

Dew on the grass and the whole world's bright

We'll chase it down, we'll get it right

Everything's better in the morning light

Windows down, we're running blind

Gold on the road and we don't mind

Young and loud and burning bright

Everything's better in the morning light

Verse

Lake water cold on our sunburned skin

Diving in where the dock light's thin

Radio static from somebody's truck

Nobody's watching, nobody's stuck

Fireflies blink like they're keeping time

Nothing feels far when the stars align

Pre-Chorus

So what's the rush, what's the hurry for

When the whole wide night's an open door

We got nowhere else we'd rather be

Just this town, just you and me

Chorus

Everything's better in the morning light

Dew on the grass and the whole world's bright

We'll chase it down, we'll get it right

Everything's better in the morning light

Windows down, we're running blind

Gold on the road and we don't mind

Young and loud and burning bright

Everything's better in the morning light

Bridge

Someday we'll trade these streets for skylines

Someday the summers won't feel this wide

But right now the corn's still tall and green

Right now we're seventeen

Let the whole world wait outside

Chorus

Everything's better in the morning light

Dew on the grass and the whole world's bright

We'll chase it down, we'll get it right

Everything's better in the morning light

Windows down, we're running blind

Gold on the road and we don't mind

Young and loud and burning bright

Everything's better in the morning light