The Kettle's Gone Quiet
Style: Cello cradle

[Verse 1]
The kettle's gone quiet but I still feel it glowing near you
and that small flame is nothing next to what I owe you
the hum in the dark is soft and low and steady
this whole house breathes slower now that you're ready

[Pre-chorus]
Let your shoulders sink and let your fingers loosen
let the last of daylight leave you without any reason
just the warmth still folded soft around your name

[Chorus]
Alaia, the night has come to hold you
every quiet corner of this house was made to fold you
Alaia, nothing here will wake you
only stillness now, and love enough to make you

[Verse 2]
Somewhere in the kitchen the copper's turning cooler
and I am standing near you like a patient old fool
watching how your breathing finds its own slow rhyme
matching every hush of this unwinding time

[Pre-chorus]
Let your shoulders sink and let your fingers loosen
let the last of daylight leave you without any reason
just the warmth still folded soft around your name

[Chorus]
Alaia, the night has come to hold you
every quiet corner of this house was made to fold you
Alaia, nothing here will wake you
only stillness now, and love enough to make you

[Bridge]
No clock is ticking loud enough to matter
no far off sound can climb this high or scatter
only the dark, and only my low humming
only you here, and morning slowly coming

[Chorus]
Alaia, the night has come to hold you
every quiet corner of this house was made to fold you
Alaia, nothing here will wake you
only stillness now, and love enough to make you

[Outro]
The kettle sits forgotten, its little light gone dim
but you are warm and held and never far from him

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