Slow as the Tap
Style: Accordion cradle

[Verse 1]
Somewhere a tap is letting its water fall slow
counting the seconds so quiet and small
and every drop that lands says you are held here
safe in the hush where the evening drapes its shawl

[Pre-chorus]
Close your eyes now, let the ticking house grow still
feel how the dark holds nothing you should fear
and drift on the sound that carries you toward

[Chorus]
Alan, the night has folded soft around you
warm as a hand that never lets you fall
nothing can touch you, nothing here will find you
Alan, I'm here through all of it, through all

[Verse 2]
The drop falls again, so gentle, so unhurried
like your own breath easing into its rest
you are the calm at the centre of this stillness
the quiet thing that I love the very best

[Chorus]
Alan, the night has folded soft around you
warm as a hand that never lets you fall
nothing can touch you, nothing here will find you
Alan, I'm here through all of it, through all

[Bridge]
Rest now, let the world grow far and small
you are so loved you barely have to try
sleep is a river carrying you gently
under a soft and watching lullaby

[Chorus]
Alan, the night has folded soft around you
warm as a hand that never lets you fall
nothing can touch you, nothing here will find you
Alan, I'm here through all of it, through all

[Outro]
Somewhere that tap still falls, slow and unhurried
and you sleep on, held safe till morning comes

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