[Intro] [Warm acoustic guitar, gentle fiddle and distant group vocals] [Verse 1] The candles burned down hours ago The fire is running low There’s laughter in the empty glasses And nowhere left to go The chairs are turned in crooked lines Our coats are on the floor And someone starts that old refrain We’ve sung a thousand times before [Pre-Chorus] Outside the sky is changing From black to silver blue And every road is quiet Like the world belongs to you [Chorus] We’ll be home before the morning Before the sun is high With a pocket full of stories And the daylight in our eyes We’ll be home before the morning But there’s still another song So stay a little longer Before the night is gone [Verse 2] We walk beneath the sleeping roofs With footsteps on the stone The town that felt so loud tonight Is suddenly our own Jamie’s carrying the fiddle Though he swears he cannot play And someone starts to whistle As the darkness fades away [Pre-Chorus] There’s something in the silence When the night begins to end That makes a road feel shorter When you’re walking with a friend [Chorus] We’ll be home before the morning Before the sun is high With a pocket full of stories And the daylight in our eyes We’ll be home before the morning But there’s still another song So stay a little longer Before the night is gone [Instrumental Break] [Warm fiddle melody joined by tin whistle, acoustic guitar and steady bodhrán] [Bridge] Maybe tomorrow we’ll be tired Maybe work begins at nine Maybe someone lost a jacket Maybe someone crossed a line But years from now we won’t remember Every word or every round We’ll remember who was with us When the morning came around [Breakdown] [Acoustic guitar and intimate lead vocal] So here’s to nights that find us When we needed them the most Here’s to roads walked home together And the friends we hold close [Build] [Fiddle rises, bodhrán returns, warm group vocals enter] The eastern sky is glowing The birds begin their song We should probably be leaving But we’ve said that all night long [Final Chorus] We’ll be home before the morning Before the sun is high With a pocket full of stories And the daylight in our eyes We’ll be home before the morning But there’s still another song So stay a little longer Before the night is gone We’ll be home before the morning With the sunrise at our backs And wherever life may take us We’ll remember nights like that We’ll be home before the morning And when all is said and done We’ll carry home the laughter As we walk into the sun [Outro] [Group vocals, fiddle, acoustic guitar and tin whistle] Home before the morning Home before the morning Carry home the laughter As we walk into the sun [Final warm fiddle melody]
