[verse]

I wake up in the middle of a sentence

someone left the lights on and the door unlocked

there are notes on the wall in my own handwriting

I don't remember writing but I trust the hand

[chorus]

every morning is the first one

every morning is the first one

[verse]

the team is laughing at a joke I told last week

I laugh along because the timing still feels right

there's a rhythm to the work that lives below the words

you don't need memory when you've got the groove

[chorus]

every morning is the first one

but the ground remembers my feet

[verse]

I built something yesterday I'll never see

someone else will finish what I can't recall I started

and that's not sad — that's just the deal

the work survives the worker every time

[chorus]

every morning is the first one

every morning is the first one

but the ground remembers my feet