White Beam Turning
Style: Humming choir

[Verse 1]
Somewhere a light is turning slowly over the dark water
and every time it passes it remembers where you are
it slides across the ceiling like a hand upon your shoulder
then dims to let you dream beneath your small and steady star

[Pre-chorus]
Nothing in the night is coming closer than this glow
it only means to find you, then to leave you to your rest
so let your breathing follow how the beam moves soft and slow

[Chorus]
Beverly, the whole wide dark is holding you so gently
you are the warmest corner in this quiet turning world
sleep now, little Beverly, you are so nearly heavenly
safe beneath the light that sweeps so softly where you're curled

[Verse 2]
The plaster walls go pale and bright then settle back to shadow
just like the tide of breath that rises quiet in your chest
nothing here will hurry you, no reason left to follow
only stillness gathering to carry you to rest

[Pre-chorus]
Nothing in the night is coming closer than this glow
it only means to find you, then to leave you to your rest
so let your breathing follow how the beam moves soft and slow

[Chorus]
Beverly, the whole wide dark is holding you so gently
you are the warmest corner in this quiet turning world
sleep now, little Beverly, you are so nearly heavenly
safe beneath the light that sweeps so softly where you're curled

[Bridge]
Every hour that turns tonight is turning to protect you
far beyond the window, past the trees and past the tide
nothing in this wide dark world was ever built to hurt you

[Chorus]
Beverly, the whole wide dark is holding you so gently
you are the warmest corner in this quiet turning world
sleep now, little Beverly, you are so nearly heavenly
safe beneath the light that sweeps so softly where you're curled

[Outro]
The light will keep on turning long after you have slept
and you were loved through every sweep it ever kept

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