From the recording Daybreak / Nightfall
The second syllable in compound words "daybreak" and "nightfall" are such harsh verbs, right? And yet they are describing phenomenas that are so gradual and beautiful.
That was the launching point of this song. And what type of person would be focused on the harshness of a word, rather than the moment itself?
Lyrics
Verse
We might be mincing words
We’ve been listening to ourselves talk
We’ve been circling ‘round what we need to say (what did we say?)
WE listen to our bed at night
It is working on a yell-whisper
We all try and find our inside voice (but why bother?)
Prechorus
We’ve been up since day break
Daybreak is such a harsh way
To say “dawn”
Let’s just say “dawn”
Chorus
The sunlight may be pushing through the blinds
The darkness would have let me hide just fine
Just let our dreams eliminate the words
And find out we feel
And let our dreams eliminate the words
And find out what we feel at dawn
Verse 2
We take advice from the radiator
Who speaks to us in spit-hiss morse code
It lost me in its semantics (hiss hiss hisss)
We are deleting what comes up
WE are getting out our white out
We are taking back what we just said (what did we say?)
Prechorus
We’ve been up since nightfall
Nightfall is such a hard way
To say “dusk”
Let’s just say “dusk”
Bridge
Oh which character said it?
Oh, was it Polonius?
Oh, about about dying to sleep
Dying to dream
Chorus