Backward Dawn

[Intro] Dawn folds backward, light unthreads the night I open my eyes where time forgets its flight [Verse 1] History unspools in reverse, a street of broken clocks Questions unwind in my chest, as the old world talks Liberties become limits, wars fade into peace I walk through yesterday’s rain, chasing echoes that cease [Pre-Chorus] The signs walk backward on the wall, I can’t find my map Every crest of memory slips away in a silver gap [Chorus] If I stumble toward home, will the door bend back to me? If I reach for the familiar, will it reach back and foresee? I’m counting breaths that rewind, longing to return Back to where the dawn knows my name and I can yearn no more [Verse 2] Symbols invert in the square: crowns sink into ground, flags fold into sighs Icons switch their faces, history wears a surprise I touch a photograph, it pulls away like a tide Nostalgia tastes like rain that never learned to dry [Pre-Chorus] I follow a clock that bleeds backward through the street of my mind Every step I take is a memory I left behind [Chorus] If I stumble toward home, will the door bend back to me? If I reach for the familiar, will it reach back and foresee? I’m counting breaths that rewind, longing to return Back to where the dawn knows my name and I can yearn no more [Bridge] Maybe there’s a thread of light from a memory I preserved A whisper in the void, a map I almost deserved If I hold on to the feeling of a place I still belong Could time forgive the distances and sing a safer song? [Chorus] If I stumble toward home, will the door bend back to me? If I reach for the familiar, will it reach back and foresee? I’m counting breaths that rewind, longing to return Back to where the dawn knows my name and I can yearn no more [Outro] So I step toward the window where the world begins to bend I’ll walk the backward dawn until I find the way to mend Until I wake to morning that calls me home again Until I wake to morning that calls me home again