[Verse 1]
I used to meet you after dark
In that soft old country of my mind
You wore the face I saved for grace
The one I found in prayer and time
I knew your hands, I knew your name
Before your footsteps touched the floor
I loved you first in sleep and smoke
And wanted you forevermore
[Pre-Chorus]
Then morning broke my spell in two
And left your shadow thin and true
I searched for you in every sky
But my own heart would not reply
[Chorus]
I lost you in the morning
I lost you with my tears
The perfect deep love faded
When I stopped meeting years
I lost you in the morning
When sleep let go of me
I loved you in the darkness
Then woke and set you free
[Verse 2]
Now I lay my white sheets down
Like a veil for what I knew
The room is full of afterglow
Of all the worlds I made for you
I held you in a thousand nights
I fed your ghost with tender light
But when the dreaming left my hands
You slipped away before the light
[Pre-Chorus]
I blamed the dawn, I blamed the moon
I blamed the silence in the room
But truth came like a wedding bell
I loved a world I cast myself
[Chorus]
I lost you in the morning
I lost you with my tears
The perfect deep love faded
When I stopped meeting years
I lost you in the morning
When sleep let go of me
I loved you in the darkness
Then woke and set you free
[Bridge]
Oh, what a cruel, sweet mercy
To wake and find the seam
That stitched your face to longing
That stitched my heart to dream
If love can live by candle
Then tell me why it dies
When daylight names the empty bed
And tears return my eyes
[Final Chorus]
I lost you in the morning
I lost you with my tears
The perfect deep love faded
When I stopped meeting years
I lost you in the morning
But still I feel you near
I loved you in the darkness
And grieve you waking here
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