Morning Without You

The sky is changing at the edges

The night is giving up its blue

I used to fear the first light coming

Because it always came without you

There's a different kind of quiet in the morning

When the streets begin to find their sound

I can see the world through open curtains

I can feel my feet upon the ground

I still remember how you said my name

The way the room would soften when you smiled

But I don't need to turn the memory over

Just to feel that I was there a while

I thought that letting go meant losing

Every little thing we knew

Now I see that some things stay with us

Even when they don't belong to you

It's a morning without you

But the sky is opening wide

I can carry what we gave each other

Without keeping you inside

It's a morning without you

And I'm learning how to see

That the life I thought I lost back then

Is still waiting here for me

I don't have to make the past a stranger

I don't have to call it all a mistake

Some of what we shared was real and lasting

Even if it wasn't ours to make

I can walk the roads we used to wander

I can hear our song and let it play

There is room for everything that happened

And there's room for what comes after today

I thought that letting go meant losing

Every little thing we knew

Now I see that some things stay with us

Even when they don't belong to you

It's a morning without you

But the sky is opening wide

I can carry what we gave each other

Without keeping you inside

It's a morning without you

And I'm learning how to see

That the life I thought I lost back then

Is still waiting here for me

Maybe peace is not a sudden feeling

Maybe hope arrives without a sound

Maybe every ending leaves a doorway

Maybe I can walk through it now

I won't ask the past to be a promise

I won't ask tomorrow to be kind

I can take this breath and let it find me

I can leave a little room for life

It's a morning without you

And the sky is opening wide

I can honor what we gave each other

Without leaving me behind

It's a morning without you

But I'm finally learning to see

That the heart can keep a memory

And still belong to me

The sky is changing at the edges

The day is coming into view

The night has left its quiet with me

And I can walk into the blue