[Verse 1] The house is sleeping the streetlights hum Three in the morning and nowhere to run No phone ringing no hands to hold No one asking me to carry their load Just me and every version of myself Sitting in the dark Like photographs I never had the courage to tear apart [Verse 2] The boy who learned not to cry The young man trying to be enough The husband the father the worker The man who called surviving love They're all here tonight And none of them look like the enemy They just look tired They just look like me [Chorus] Before the morning Before the light finds every scar Before I put the armor on and remember who they think I am Let me stay here just long enough to tell the truth I don't want to die I just don't want to keep living like this before the morning comes [Verse 3] I spent so many years being needed I forgot how to need Spent so long protecting everyone I forgot what protection means I thought strength was never bending Never asking never breaking down But maybe strength is finally admitting I can't carry all of this alone [Pre-Chorus] No promises No miracles No voice from somewhere above Just one tired man finally asking himself if he still knows how to love the life he's got [Chorus] Before the morning Before the light finds every scar Before I put the armor on and remember who they think I am Let me stay here just long enough to tell the truth I don't want to die I just don't want to keep living like this before the morning comes [Bridge] What if I stop trying to become the man I should have been? What if forgiveness isn't forgetting but refusing to bleed again? What if the years I have left don't owe anything to the years I've lost? What if tomorrow isn't another sentence but the first day I choose what it costs? [Break] I can't go back I know I can't undo what's gone But maybe I don't have to keep punishing what survived [Final Chorus] Before the morning I'm laying everything down The shame the weight the names the things I couldn't turn around I won't promise I'll wake up a different man But maybe for the first time I'll wake up as the one I am Before the morning I don't need saving I just need to stop running from myself [Outro] The sky is changing I can see it through the blinds Not sunrise yet But close Close enough to stay
