First Step

[Verse 1]

Did you ever have one of these days?

This is a day like any other day

You are free to wake up and shave

Soapy hands fumbling on porcelain

Hot, good coffee and a good, good book

Bicycle, bicycle

[Chorus]

Breathing easier now

Tear the roof off your day

No one's coming over

It ain't written

So don't try to read it

[Verse 2]

Smell the hot rain on the street

Could be love, could be alcohol

Cup my hands around your face

A little frame, a lot of pain

I can tell the tears from the rain

One tastes sweet, the other plain

[Chorus]

Breathing easier now

Tear the roof off your day

No one's coming over

It ain't written

So don't try to read it

[Bridge]

And who am I to think I could hang

Such a precious life on a clever line?

You're in all the books I read

A hundred pages out of reach

And so I pull myself

Crawl to feet, hit the street

It'll take some time

To learn the lesson of the fall

And begin another climb

[Chorus]

Breathing easier now

Tear the roof off your day

No one's coming over

It ain't written

So don't try to read it