Better In The Morning Light

Verse

Boxes stacked by the register at half past two

Fluorescent hum but the radio's cutting through

Price gun clicking like a heartbeat under my ribs

Sixteen hours in and I'm still running on this

Torn receipt in my pocket, a name I don't know

Coffee gone cold but I can't let the feeling go

Something about the way the dust catches the beam

Says hold on, hold on, don't wake up from the dream

Pre-Chorus

So what if the shift's not done

What if the math don't run

I swear there's a shine in this

I'm not ready to let it slip

Chorus

It's better in the morning light

Every scuff and scratch look right

I'm holding on, I'm holding on

To the gold in this tired sign

Everything I'm scared to lose

Comes back soft in daylight blue

I'm holding on, I'm holding on

It's better in the morning light

Verse

Same four walls, same buzzing sign out on the street

Same tired shoes but something's different in my feet

Counted every dollar, counted every mile I've come

Still got dust on my hands but I'm not done, I'm not done

Sun comes up over the parking lot chrome

Turns the whole gray block into something like a home

Maybe I'm crazy, chasing shine off cracked concrete

But I feel it rising underneath these aching feet

Pre-Chorus

So what if the shift's not done

What if the math don't run

I swear there's a shine in this

I'm not ready to let it slip

Chorus

It's better in the morning light

Every scuff and scratch look right

I'm holding on, I'm holding on

To the gold in this tired sign

Everything I'm scared to lose

Comes back soft in daylight blue

I'm holding on, I'm holding on

It's better in the morning light

Bridge

Maybe it's not the store, it's not the door I open twice

Maybe it's just this feeling I keep chasing into light

The kind that says you made it, even half-asleep on your feet

That's the gold I'm keeping, that's the one I get to keep

Chorus

It's better in the morning light

Every scuff and scratch look right

I'm holding on, I'm holding on

To the gold in this tired sign

Everything I'm scared to lose

Comes back soft in daylight blue

I'm holding on, I'm holding on

It's better in the morning light