There's a moment in the morning
When the sky is getting grey
And the silhouettes of mountains turn to jade
Faces lose their colours and shapes are hard to see
When the night that's not yet over
Lightens by degrees

In the stillness I am speechless, I'm in awe and I'm awake
Attending to a shifting in the stars
I pull away the blanket feel a draft against my skin
I raise myself and lift away your arm

This is not the end they say that life is very long
A bending reed will thicken in the wind
This is not the end I know a brighter day will come
But never with the lustre of the dawn

You look so pretty sleeping with your hair across your face
It's hard to leave the softness of your bed
But my mind is through with resting so I might as well get dressed
Make myself some coffee for the way

There's a nightjar sweeping low
And silent in the swale
Hunting in the thickets by the road
I see her take her perch on every sign post that I pass
Marking every pathway as her own

This is not the end they say that life is very long
A bending reed will thicken in the wind
This is not the end I know a brighter day will come
But never with the lustre of the dawn

A new day's pressing to be born
But yesterday's not gone
In twilight all the shadows disappear
I look out on the skyline there's a blush along the ridge
A cavalcade of sunlight rolling in

This is not the end they say that life is very long
A bending reed will thicken in the wind
This is not the end I know a brighter day will come
But never with the lustre of the dawn
This is not the end I know a brighter day will come
But never with the lustre of the dawn