(Intro)

Mmmh Vailedmoon..

ooh love

(Verse 1)

I used to trace your face upon the windowpane

While rain would fall like silent, tearful pain

I knew your voice through a crackling telephone line

A million miles away, and you were never truly mine

Just a ghost in the static, a whisper in the dark

I'd hold a photograph and try to leave my mark

On a world that felt so empty, a world that felt so cold

A story that was waiting for a hand to finally hold.

(Pre-Chorus)

And I'd lie awake and wonder in the deep and lonely night

If this was just a beautiful and torturous delight

Was the distance a mistake, a lesson I had to learn?

Or just a bridge we had to cross before the fire could burn?

(Chorus - Builds in intensity)

But now the sun is rising,

It's rising in your eyes

After decades of the darkest,

darkest, darkest nights

And I'm finally, finally home

Right here in your arms, I'm not alone

This is the place I've never known

This is where my heart has grown

Oh, it feels like the sun is rising

For the very, very first time.

(Verse 2 - More intimate, softer)

I remember all the airports, the hurried, sad goodbyes

The way I'd hide my trembling hands and try to hide my cries

Every "see you later" felt like a little death

Holding on to nothing, just a single, fragile breath

And the fear, oh the fear, it was a constant, heavy friend

Whispering that it all would have to come to an end

That a love this strong and pure was just a pretty lie

That we were building castles in a vast and empty sky.

(Pre-Chorus)

And I'd ask myself the questions in the quiet of the night

Can a love survive on memory and the promise of a light?

Was I foolish to believe, was I wrong to hold on tight?

Did I just waste a thousand days for a second of the light?

(Chorus - Full emotion, powerful)

But now the sun is rising,

It's rising in your eyes

After decades of the darkest,

darkest, darkest nights

And I'm finally, finally home

Right here in your arms, I'm not alone

This is the place I've never known

This is where my heart has grown

Oh, it feels like the sun is rising

For the very, very first time.

(Bridge - The questions, raw and vulnerable)

Did you ever feel it too? (Did you feel it, baby?)

Did you ever feel so lost and blue? (So lost...)

Was it worth the years we paid?

All the memories we made of a love that we delayed?

Was the fear of being wrong stronger than the fight?

Did you, like me, just hold on to the light?

(Vocal ad-lib, soaring, almost a cry) Oh, tell me, tell me... was it worth it all?

(Final Chorus - Grandiose, full of release)

Because the sun is rising! (The sun is rising!)

It's rising in your eyes! (In your beautiful eyes!)

After decades of the darkest,

Decades of the darkest nights! (Oh, the darkness is gone!)

And I'm finally, finally home! (Finally!)

Right here in your arms, I'm not alone (I'm not alone...)

This is the place I've never known (The place for me!)

This is where my heart has grown! (Where I have grown!)

Oh, it feels like the sun is rising

For the very, very first time.