Soot and Settle
Style: Celesta and strings

[Verse 1]
Soot comes tumbling soft down the old red brick flue tonight
and somewhere above us the floorboards creak and settle too
every small sound in this house is only the house breathing slow
and none of it, none of it, ever comes looking for you

[Pre-chorus]
Close your eyes now, let the whole house hush around you
nothing tonight is going to ask you to be brave
just the dark going soft as it folds its wings above you

[Chorus]
Ann, the night has nowhere it needs you to be
you can rest here as long as you want to stay
every corner of this dark belongs to Ann tonight
and I will keep the morning waiting till you wake

[Verse 2]
Somewhere a chimney sighs and lets its small ash fall
like the day letting go of everything it carried
you don't have to hold onto anything at all
just the warm and the quiet, and how well you are guarded

[Bridge]
Let the last light go out slow, there's no rush in it
the house will still be standing when the morning comes

[Chorus]
Ann, the night has nowhere it needs you to be
you can rest here as long as you want to stay
every corner of this dark belongs to Ann tonight
and I will keep the morning waiting till you wake

[Outro]
Somewhere the soot has settled soft along the old flue
and you are settling too, warm and safe and through

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