The Yellow Light on the Ceiling
Style: Fingerpicked night

[Verse 1]
A far yellow light is sweeping slow across the grey plaster above you
It circles the room like it's checking that you are safe and warm
Nothing out there can reach you now, wrapped up in this quiet hour
You are held here so gently, safe from every passing storm

[Chorus]
Diana, the night is holding you soft and low
Sleep is coming to carry you where the warm winds blow
Close your eyes now, Diana, let the dark be kind
You are the calmest thing I have ever known

[Verse 2]
The light keeps its slow watch, sweeping easy across the ceiling
It never hurries, it never fades, it only turns and returns
You breathe in time with its turning, small and steady and certain
There is nothing in this whole night that you have to earn

[Pre-chorus]
Somewhere far off a light keeps turning, patient and low and true
It is only doing what I do when I watch over you
So let your shoulders soften now, there is nowhere else to be but

[Chorus]
Diana, the night is holding you soft and low
Sleep is coming to carry you where the warm winds blow
Close your eyes now, Diana, let the dark be kind
You are the calmest thing I have ever known

[Bridge]
However far that light travels, it always comes back round
You are the safest kind of quiet I have ever found

[Chorus]
Diana, the night is holding you soft and low
Sleep is coming to carry you where the warm winds blow
Close your eyes now, Diana, let the dark be kind
You are the calmest thing I have ever known

[Outro]
The light will keep on turning long after your eyes have closed
You are loved past counting, Diana, all the way to morning

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