Dawn Does Not Apologise

[Verse 1] The forest wakes slowly No trumpet, no sign Just green unclosing gently At the edge of night The dark loosens its fingers From the branches and the stones Mist lifts from the hollow Like a ghost deciding home No star makes a speech No moon calls back its name One by one, the old lights vanish Without explaining what they claimed And I am there beneath them Where the roots hold quiet ground Not healed, not made holy Just less afraid of sound [Pre-Chorus] I waited for a reason Written bright above the trees But the leaves began to silver And the answer was release [Chorus] Dawn does not apologise It does not explain the night It just lays gold on the treetops And lets the world go quiet Dawn does not apologise It does not make it fair But I am swimming to the surface And coming up for air [Verse 2] The drama slides off softly Like rain from fern and thorn Every shadow that felt endless Finds an ending in the morn Birds begin with nothing Then become a scattered choir Not grand enough for prophecy Just small throats catching fire The stars blink out above me Like eyes that learned to close And for once I do not chase them Down the paths where longing goes There is moss beneath my palms There is breath inside my chest There is a path I have not taken And I do not fear it yet [Pre-Chorus] I thought the end would dazzle I thought the truth would blaze But it only looks like branches Learning how to hold the day [Chorus] Dawn does not apologise It does not explain the night It just lays gold on the treetops And lets the world go quiet Dawn does not apologise It does not make it fair But I am swimming to the surface And coming up for air [Bridge] No more bargaining with darkness No more courtroom in the sky No more asking every silence For a secret reason why The constellations leave me The dragon folds from view The northern colours pale away Into ordinary blue And maybe that is mercy Not a crown, not a sign Just the forest breathing open And another chance at time I do not bless what broke me I do not call it kind I only let the last star fade And leave the night behind [Final Chorus] Dawn does not apologise It does not explain the night It just lays gold on the treetops And lets the world go quiet Dawn does not apologise It does not make it fair But I am swimming to the surface And coming up for air Dawn does not apologise It does not heal the scar But I can stand here in the morning Without begging from the stars [Outro] The night is over now No answer, no design Just light through waking branches And breath enough for mine