A Circle of Gold
Style: Gentle acoustic

[Verse 1]
The little brass lamp throws a circle of gold on the wall
and you are the reason that circle feels warm at all
the pattern behind you goes soft and it blurs into rest
while you settle deeper, the safest and calmest and best

[Chorus]
Arlo, the light is low and the whole room is still
nothing can reach you, and nothing tonight ever will
close up your eyes now, let go of the day and its noise
Arlo, my Arlo, you're held here and loved beyond choice

[Verse 2]
I watch how the glow makes a halo of gold round your head
and I think of a hundred small joys since you climbed into bed
you hum without knowing, a sound only sleep lets you keep
and I sit here beside you and guard every breath while you sleep

[Pre-chorus]
The wallpaper dims as the lamplight starts to grow low
shadows are kind here, they move so unhurried and slow
so let your small hands go loose and let your whole body go

[Chorus]
Arlo, the light is low and the whole room is still
nothing can reach you, and nothing tonight ever will
close up your eyes now, let go of the day and its noise
Arlo, my Arlo, you're held here and loved beyond choice

[Bridge]
Whatever tomorrow decides that it brings
you'll wake to the same steady, ordinary things
this room and this light and this feeling of home
and never one moment of feeling alone

[Chorus]
Arlo, the light is low and the whole room is still
nothing can reach you, and nothing tonight ever will
close up your eyes now, let go of the day and its noise
Arlo, my Arlo, you're held here and loved beyond choice

[Outro]
The brass lamp keeps burning its small, steady gold
long after you've drifted where dreams start to unfold

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