The Slow Turning Light
Style: Clarinet nightlight

[Verse 1]
Somewhere a heavy lens is turning slow above the sea tonight
and its beam comes round so gently, soft and warm as candlelight
the dark can't touch you here, my love
you rest inside that patient light

[Pre-chorus]
Close your eyes, the whole wide sky is settling down to rest
let the hush roll in around you like a blanket on your chest
and drift now toward the calm that's waiting near

[Chorus]
Crystal, the night is turning soft and slow around your bed
every shadow's turned to velvet, every worry's gently fed
Crystal, my love is like that lighthouse beam
always finding you, however far you've strayed

[Verse 2]
The old lamp doesn't hurry, it just circles round and round
never leaving, never fading, making safe the whole dark ground
that's how I hold you close tonight
in a love that makes no sound

[Chorus]
Crystal, the night is turning soft and slow around your bed
every shadow's turned to velvet, every worry's gently fed
Crystal, my love is like that lighthouse beam
always finding you, however far you've strayed

[Bridge]
Rest your small hand open like a shell against the shore
you don't have to watch the dark, I'll keep the warm light on

[Chorus]
Crystal, the night is turning soft and slow around your bed
every shadow's turned to velvet, every worry's gently fed
Crystal, my love is like that lighthouse beam
always finding you, however far you've strayed

[Outro]
Somewhere that heavy lens still turns above the quiet sea
and you sleep on inside its light, so safe, so held, so free

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