[The Hollow Dawn] [ Verse 1: Male Vocals ] The sun creeps on the floorboards in a jagged, yellow line Replacing every whisper with a stillness so unkind Two pillows in the shadows while the clock begins to tick The silence in the hallway makes the heavy air feel thick [ Chorus 1: Male and Female Duet ] The hands move onward but the days are feeling hollow A path is waiting where no footsteps want to follow The meaning of a moment fades away into the gray Everything is different at the breaking of the day [ Verse 2: Female Vocals ] One ceramic mug emits a plume of lonely, rising steam Disrupting every flicker of a disappearing dream The second wooden chair is at the kitchen table To carry on the old routine, the hands are hardly able [ Chorus 2: Male and Female Duet ] The hands move onward but the days are feeling hollow A path is waiting where no footsteps want to follow The meaning of a moment fades away into the gray Everything is different at the breaking of the day [ Bridge 1: Male and Female Duet ] The kitchen glows in blue while heavy shadows start to bloom Still paralyzed by rhythms that we shared inside the room The sheets are pulled so tight across the empty side of the bed The weight of every morning brings a quiet sense of dread [ Verse 3: Male Vocals ] The winter light is pouring through the panes of window glass While watching every second of the frozen minutes pass The warmth is gone from corners where the laughter used to ring The brightness doesn't offer up a single hopeful thing [ Chorus 3: Male and Female Duet ] The hands move onward but the days are feeling hollow A path is waiting where no footsteps want to follow The meaning of a moment fades away into the gray Everything is different at the breaking of the day [ Bridge 2: Male and Female Duet ] The kitchen glows in blue while heavy shadows start to bloom Still paralyzed by rhythms that we shared inside the room The sheets are pulled so tight across the empty side of bed The weight of every morning brings a quiet sense of dread [ Verse 4: Female Vocals ] Dust motes drift in silence through a sliver of the dawn The evidence of movement when the energy is gone The calendar is marking off a week of hollow space Searching for the features of a long-remembered face [ Final Chorus: Male and Female Duet ] The hands move onward and the world remains so hollow A path is open but the feet refuse to follow The meaning of a story ends in shades of somber gray Since everything is broken at the breaking of the day [ Outro: Male and Female Duet ] The morning never comes the way it used to anymore Just a long and quiet walk across the kitchen floor A colder kind of morning, a different kind of light Waiting for the ending of a never-ending night
