[Intro] (quiet — piano and breath, echoing the whispered openings) It came… after all of it… the morning came… [Hook] Morning came, morning came, after all of the night, after every kind of dark that I was sure would win the fight I didn't think I'd see it, didn't think I'd make the dawn — but the morning came, the morning came Every hour that I counted in the cold and in the black, every time I swore the light was never coming back — still the morning came, oh, the morning came [Post-Hook] (soft swell) (It came, it came) After all of it… (It came, it came) The morning came [Verse 1] There's a kind of joy you only know on the far side of the deep, a sunrise that hits different when you didn't think you'd keep And I'm standing in it now with the salt still on my face, with the whole long night behind me and the light all over the place I'm not gonna act like it was easy, not gonna skip the cost, not gonna tell you that I didn't think that everything was lost — but I'm here to be the evidence, here to be the proof: the morning comes for everyone, and the morning came for you [Pre-Hook] I counted every hour and I swore it wouldn't break, swore the night had won forever, swore there's nothing left to take — then the gray came up the edges… and the morning came [Hook] Morning came, morning came, after all of the night, after every kind of dark that I was sure would win the fight I didn't think I'd see it, didn't think I'd make the dawn — but the morning came, the morning came Every hour that I counted in the cold and in the black, every time I swore the light was never coming back — still the morning came, oh, the morning came [Verse 2] (lifts, opening up) So if you're sitting in the night that you're sure will never break, counting hours in the cold with everything at stake — let me be the one who tells you from the far side of the black: it doesn't last forever and the light is coming back I was carried through the worst of it, was held when I let go, was named and met and mended in a dark I couldn't know — and I'm standing here to say it with the sun across my skin: the morning came for me, and the morning's coming in [Bridge] (full choir, organ, huge) It came (it came) After all (after all) Everything the dark had taken, giving back, giving back Morning came (morning came), I'm still here — everything that should've killed me, and the morning came (carried me… held me… here I am…) [Verse 3] (the callback verse — biggest emotional peak, ties the whole record) I was the girl inside the ashes, I was hanging by the thread, I was begging for the taking of the ache that stayed instead I rehearsed a speech I never gave, I answered to a name, I called into the silence and I sat there in the shame — but every road I thought would end me only led me to the light, every dark that should've kept me only handed me the night that turned into a morning that I'm standing in to say: I was held through all of it — and the morning came [Final Hook] (enormous — full belt + choir + organ) Morning came, morning came, after all of the night — and I'm living, breathing proof that you can make it to the light I didn't think I'd see it but I'm standing in it now — 'cause the morning came, the morning came So whatever's got you certain that the dark is gonna win, hold on through the last of it and let the morning in — 'cause the morning came for me, and the morning comes for you [Outro] (settles back — choir fades under reverb, one last quiet line to close the album) After all of it… the morning came… I'm still here… the morning came
