Morning Dew

Lyrics

Intro
The house still breathes
In the bruise-blue dawn
I taste your name
Like rust on my tongue

Verse 1
Mold on the frame
Cold on my hands
Your shadow hangs
Where the ceiling fans

I found your note
In the kitchen sink
Three little words
Made the mirror blink

The floorboards creak
Like a guilty mouth
Every room leans
Toward the dark cloud south

Pre-Chorus
Hear that knock
At the back of my skull
Hear that prayer
Turning black and dull

Rise up slow
Let the fear come near
One more step
And I disappear

Chorus
Morning dew, morning dew
Wash my mind clean through
Morning dew, morning dew
I was born in you

Morning dew, morning dew
Bite my bones in two
Morning dew, morning dew
I still come to you

Verse 2
The clock melted
On the hallway wall
Your broken laugh
Still stains it all

I fed my doubt
To the cellar fire
It came back wearing
My face for a choir

Black moth wings
On the lamp-lit glass
Every good thing
Turns to broken ash

I held your throat
In a dream last night
You smiled at me
With dead white light

Pre-Chorus
Hear that knock
At the back of my skull
Hear that prayer
Turning black and dull

Rise up slow
Let the fear come near
One more step
And I disappear

Chorus
Morning dew, morning dew
Wash my mind clean through
Morning dew, morning dew
I was born in you

Morning dew, morning dew
Bite my bones in two
Morning dew, morning dew
I still come to you

Breakdown
Drown
Drown in the stain
Break
Break the chain

(You belong)
(You belong)

Drown
Drown in the stain
Break
Break the chain

Verse 3
Now the yard glows
With a corpse-white sheen
Every blade of grass
Looks sharpened clean

I dig my nails
Into the packed black earth
To bury the man
Who forgot my worth

But from below
Comes a lowborn sigh
Like your cold lips
Under glassy sky

So I stand here still
In the poisoned air
Half a beast
And half a prayer

Pre-Chorus
Hear that knock
At the back of my skull
Hear that prayer
Turning black and dull

Rise up slow
Let the fear come near
One more step
And I disappear

Chorus
Morning dew, morning dew
Wash my mind clean through
Morning dew, morning dew
I was born in you

Morning dew, morning dew
Bite my bones in two
Morning dew, morning dew
I still come to you

Bridge
Strip the flesh
From the hidden name
Turn my shame
Into a blade of flame

I was the saint
You wore like a scar
Now I’m the howl
At the bedroom door

Lead Guitar Solo
Solo
Solo
Solo

Breakdown
Hell in the ribs
Weight in the throat
Speak my sins
As a funeral note

Hell in the ribs
Weight in the throat
Morning dew
Is the only ghost

Outro
The house goes still
In the bruise-blue dawn
I drink that light
And the weak heart’s gone

Morning dew
Morning dew
Morning dew
I still come to you