The Weights Behind the Door
Style: Humming choir

[Verse 1]
Somewhere down the hallway a small brass heart is ticking
soft behind a door that keeps on gently clicking
and nothing in this house would ever let you fall
you are held here closer than the quiet on the wall

[Pre-chorus]
The ticking slows the whole wide world to one small steady sound
and every worry you were holding sets its weight back down
so let your eyes grow heavy now, there's nothing to be found but

[Chorus]
Alexis, sleep is soft and it is yours tonight
hushed as the hallway, warm as the fading light
nothing will trouble you, nothing will touch or vex us
rest easy now, you steady heart, my own Alexis

[Verse 2]
The house breathes slow around you like it's holding you in place
every shadow softens when it settles on your face
you don't have to keep watch, there is nothing you must guard
the whole night's only purpose is to hold you soft and hard

[Bridge]
Whatever spins beyond these walls can wait outside till morning
only stillness and your breathing get to have the floor tonight

[Chorus]
Alexis, sleep is soft and it is yours tonight
hushed as the hallway, warm as the fading light
nothing will trouble you, nothing will touch or vex us
rest easy now, you steady heart, my own Alexis

[Outro]
Somewhere down the hallway that same small heart keeps ticking
soft and slow and certain, never once forgetting you

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