Every Sunrise Owes Me Nothing

Verse

Packed your sandals by the door at five

Salt still drying on the sill outside

Rooster crowing like he don't know why

Two cups of coffee, only one to drink tonight

The ferry horn is calling out your name

Water pulling harder than the chain

Pre-Chorus

So how you leave a shoreline

And still call it home

How the tide keeps my footprints

Long after you're gone

Chorus

Every sunrise owes me nothing

Still it climbs up anyway

Paints the water gold and humble

Says get up, find your day

I've got sand between my sorrows

And a sky that won't back down

Every sunrise owes me nothing

And it rises just the same

Verse

Found your scarf caught on the fisherman's net

Blue like the hour before the sun forgets

Neighbor asked me how I'm holding up

I said the mango tree still gives its fruit

I'm sweeping porches, counting up the days

Learning grief can wear a easy gait

Pre-Chorus

So how you leave a shoreline

And still call it home

How the tide keeps my footprints

Long after you're gone

Chorus

Every sunrise owes me nothing

Still it climbs up anyway

Paints the water gold and humble

Says get up, find your day

I've got sand between my sorrows

And a sky that won't back down

Every sunrise owes me nothing

And it rises just the same

Bridge

Maybe love ain't meant to stay put

Like the tide that has to leave the root

Maybe missing you's the price I pay

For the way you taught this heart to blaze

I'm not asking for another chance

Just another morning I can dance

Chorus

Every sunrise owes me nothing

Still it climbs up anyway

Paints the water gold and humble

Says get up, find your day

I've got sand between my sorrows

And a sky that won't back down

Every sunrise owes me nothing

And it rises, and it rises

Every sunrise owes me nothing

And it rises just the same