When Morning Comes

[Verse 1] Night gives back its silence The desert learns my name Every grain remembers Though nothing looks the same I hear a thousand voices Like echoes in the dawn Not calling me to follow But telling me... "Carry on." [Pre-Chorus] I wake beneath a sky That feels both old and new Every heartbeat borrowed Every promise carried through [Chorus] When morning comes I'll rise with the sun Not because I'm unbroken But because I'm the one Who remembers the names The wind couldn't keep I'll carry them forward With every heartbeat When morning comes... I won't walk alone. [Verse 2] The stone no longer judges Its silence feels like home The weight upon my shoulders Is finally my own I see the roads behind me The ones I'll never tread Yet every soul beside me Still whispers through my steps [Pre-Chorus] No crown upon my head No glory left to claim Only countless lives Entrusting me their names [Final Chorus] When morning comes I'll rise once again With the light of forever Beneath my skin Every hope Every scar Every life before mine Lives within this heart Lives within this light When morning comes... I'll remember. [Outro] (Soft piano. Egyptian flute. Choir fades into the wind.) The desert grows quiet... But never... Empty.