Slow As Ash
Style: Vibraphone drift

[Verse 1]
The grey ash falls so slowly behind the quiet guard tonight
and the whole room breathes out with the dimming of the light
you are curled up warm where nothing here can reach you now
safe behind the glow that settles soft and out of sight

[Chorus]
August, hush now, let the embers have their way
August, you are held here, you can drift and float away
nothing in this house will stir before the break of day
rest is yours completely, August, come what may

[Verse 2]
Every spark that fades tonight was once a wild and restless thing
and it settles now to nothing but a gentle, dying ring
you were loud and bright with living all the whole day through
and now you fold down softly like a bird upon a wing

[Pre-chorus]
The last log shifts and settles with a sound too soft to fear
warmth is closing round you like the falling of the year
hold on to nothing, let it all come near

[Chorus]
August, hush now, let the embers have their way
August, you are held here, you can drift and float away
nothing in this house will stir before the break of day
rest is yours completely, August, come what may

[Bridge]
You are not the ash, you are the warmth it leaves behind
you are not the dark, you are the calm inside my mind

[Chorus]
August, hush now, let the embers have their way
August, you are held here, you can drift and float away
nothing in this house will stir before the break of day
rest is yours completely, August, come what may

[Outro]
The ash falls quiet now behind the guard, and so do you
sleep soft, sleep sure, there's nothing waiting through the night for you

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