Morning Man Songtext

von Rupert Holmes

I arise to the 5 a.m. skies left over from yesterday.
With a moan, I clutch out for the phone. It's her. Says she's on her way.
And fifteen minutes later, I hear the elevator.
I gave her my apartment key, so she eases in and lays with me.

Pay my way with a 9 to 5 day; she's working the midnight grind.
Dressed in white, by the dawn's eerie light, she reaches my cobwebbed mind.
She brews us up some coffee, and pulls the covers off me;
I grab her wrist and pull her near,
And the night begins to clear...

Morning man. Doesn't take much to wake me–
Just you shake your morning man.
I've been dreaming of how you'll wake me
Since this endless night began.
So curl up with your early riser.
In my eyes you see the plan:
You'll catch up on your sleep this evening,
And l'll be your morning man.

8 at night, in the last of the light, I wander back home again.
Time is cheap 'cause I know she's asleep and out for the count 'til 10.
And when she's finally wakin', I'll fix some eggs and bacon.
She'll say "Good night. I'm late again.
I'11 say, "Good night. I'll wait."

Morning man. Doesn't take much to wake me—
Just you shake your morning man.
I've been dreaming of how you'll wake me
Since this endless night began.
So curl up with your early riser.
In my eyes you see the plan:
You'll catch up on your sleep this evening,
And l'll be your morning man.