False Dawn

Verse 1

Pale gold bleeding through the grey

Broken shadows learn to pray

Streetlights dim like tired eyes

Morning hums in borrowed lies

Pre-Chorus

Hold your breath and count the light

See it flicker, not ignite

Chorus

False dawn, don’t pretend

You are not the promised end

Warm my hands, then fade to stone

Leave me halfway, not at home

False dawn, thin and kind

Paint the window, spare the mind

If you cannot lift the night

Teach me how to bear its weight

Verse 2

Footsteps whisper over glass

Echoes of the hours pass

Birdsong threads a silver seam

Stitches through a wounded dream

Pre-Chorus

Call it day, but hear the rain

Falling in a different vein

Chorus

False dawn, don’t pretend

You are not the promised end

Warm my hands, then fade to stone

Leave me halfway, not at home

False dawn, thin and kind

Paint the window, spare the mind

If you cannot lift the night

Teach me how to bear its weight

Bridge

If the sun is only smoke

If the light is only spoke

Turn the ember in my chest

Let that fire do the rest

Breakdown

Rise—slow—through ash and bone

Find—glow—inside my own

Final Chorus

False dawn, I won’t break

I will rise for my own sake

If your color will not stay

I will carry back the day

False dawn, fade away

I have learned another way

When the window loses light

I will be the spark tonight