Pale Shadows on the Wall
Style: Vibraphone drift

[Verse 1]
Pale shadows of window frames drift across the plaster wall
moving so slowly that you barely see them fall
and here in this room where the lamp light has gone low
you are the softest thing that I will ever know

[Pre-chorus]
The dark outside is quiet and it means you no harm
every corner of this house is wrapped in warm
so let your eyes grow heavy as the hush begins to grow

[Chorus]
Cooper, my Cooper, let the night be kind and slow
Cooper, you are held here wherever you may go
the shadows on the wall are only settling down to rest
and you are, of everything I've known, the gentlest and the best

[Verse 2]
The frame beside the window bends and softens in the gloom
laying out its quiet pattern across the sleepy room
and I could watch you breathing for a hundred nights or more
because you are the reason that I linger by the door

[Bridge]
Nothing in this darkness wants to reach you where you lie
only calm, only comfort, only slow and easy sky
rest inside the stillness that this small room holds tonight

[Chorus]
Cooper, my Cooper, let the night be kind and slow
Cooper, you are held here wherever you may go
the shadows on the wall are only settling down to rest
and you are, of everything I've known, the gentlest and the best

[Outro]
The pale shapes on the plaster will keep watch till morning's light
and you will still be precious when the sun comes soft and bright

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