Paper cups and ashtrays
Scattered on the floor
Curtains hold the sunrise
Like it’s been here before

Empty bottles talking
When nobody’s around
Last night’s still hanging
In the silence of the sound

[chorus]
Ashes in the daylight
Still hanging in my eyes
hanging in the morning light
Where the night won’t say goodbye

[vocal harmonies]
half, awake
half, in a dream
all, turd state
not waking up completely

[verse 2]
Footsteps in the hallway
That don’t belong to me
Light leaks through the doorway
Like it’s trying to see

Hours lost their meaning
Sometime near the dawn
What we were pretending
Is already gone

[chorus]
Ashes in the daylight
Still hanging in my eyes
still hanging in the morning light
Where the night won’t say goodbye

[harmonies]
( aaaaaaaaaah )
( oooooooooooh )
( aaaaaaaaaaah )
not waking up completely

[instrumental]

[chorus]
Ashes in the daylight
Still hanging in my eyes
Ashes in the daylight
Where the night won’t say goodbye

Still hanging in the daylight
Still half in last night’s dream
Still hanging in the daylight
Not waking up completely

© Words & Music by Jeff Whitaker and Joe Linstrum

Ashes in the Daylight

I write the songs that make the whole world cringe.