WHERE THE DAYLIGHT GOES [INTRO — DISTANT SURF / BREATH / DETUNED MUSIC BOX] There’s a new light sleeping underneath the door There’s a heartbeat in the house I’ve never heard before I’ve been dragging all my shadows through the sand Then the morning opens slowly in your hands [VERSE I — INTIMATE, PERCUSSIVE] I wore night like a second skin Chrome on my teeth, lit'l ghosts within Every road I took came back half-dead With a carnival moon hanging over my head Then you moved— And the whole room changed Like the tide knew something I could never explain No carved out heaven, trapped in stone Just my somewhere, there my heart knows home [PRE-CHORUS — HARMONIES BEGIN BLOOMING] When the black waves rise When the nichrome glows There’s a place in you Where the daylight goes [CHORUS — MASSIVE SUNLIT VOCAL WALL] in your eyes, I can see them your eyes, your eyes Oh, carry me into the morning Past the machines and the beautiful noise I’ve been a stranger inside of my body Till I heard forever hiding in your voice Oh, carry me through like water Where any broken thing learns how to shine If there’s a doorway out this darkness I swear I can feel it, your eyes When your hand finds mine [POST-CHORUS — BEACH-CHOIR / INDUSTRIAL STOMP] Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh Come alive, come alive Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh Out of the night [VERSE II — HEAVIER / PREDATORY GROOVE] Now the engine kicks and the floorboards shake Saints on the dashboard, snakes in the brake Red little stars in the rearview glass Every hungry little devil says, “Nothing lasts” Let ’em talk. We got salt in our lungs Got thunder below Got a beautiful reason Not to let go And I’ve seen enough pretty things disappear To know what it means when something stays near [PRE-CHORUS — ASCENDING] When the black waves rise When the sirens blow There’s a fire in you Even midnight knows [CHORUS — BIGGER] in your eyes, I can see them your eyes, your eyes Oh, carry me into the morning Past the machines and the beautiful noise I’ve been a stranger inside of my body Till I heard forever hiding in your voice Oh, carry me through like water Where any broken thing learns how to shine If there’s a doorway out this darkness I swear I can feel it, your eyes When your hand finds mine [BREAKDOWN — EVERYTHING COLLAPSES TO HEARTBEAT + VOICE] I spent half my life Trying to outrun the night But darkness ain't darkness When somebody stays And love ain't a promise You nail to a page Sometimes it’s only Two people awake While the whole world sleeps And the old walls shake [BUILD — ONE VOICE BECOMES MANY] So if morning comes— Let it find us here If the ocean rises— Let it disappear If the stars burn out— If the old gods go— I’ll follow that light Wherever it goes [FINAL CHORUS — CATHEDRAL-SIZED WALL OF HARMONY] in your eyes, I can see them your eyes, your eyes Oh, carry me into the morning Past the machines and the beautiful noise I’ve been a stranger inside of my body Till I heard forever hiding in your voice Oh, carry me through like water Where any broken thing learns how to shine If there’s a doorway out this darkness I swear I can feel it, your eyes When your hand finds mine Carry me into the morning! (over the water!) Past every shadow thats swallowed (flooding inside) I thought forever was something we invented miracle isn't escaping— it's finally Being alive [OUTRO — SURF HARMONIES OVER CRUSHED INDUSTRIAL RIFF] Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh Where the daylight goes... Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh I will follow... The machines fall quiet The black water glows And I find you there— Where the daylight goes.
