White Cotton, Closed Window
Style: Fingerpicked night

[Verse 1]
White cotton drifts soft where the warm pipes hum below the glass
You watch it sway slow while the whole house breathes beside you
Nothing in this room asks anything of you tonight
Just quiet, and warmth, and the hush that stays to guide you

[Pre-chorus]
Outside the pane the dark is settling in to stay
Your eyes are growing heavy, soft as evening light
Let go now, gently, drifting far away

[Chorus]
Duncan, the window is closed and the night is kind
Sleep can find you easy as breath, as sun can rise again
Nobody needs you to be anything but still and warm and mine, Duncan
Rest now, love, let the quiet in

[Verse 2]
Somewhere a radiator ticks its slow and steady song
Wrapped in warmth, you're further from the cold than you know
Every soft thread of that cotton holds you close and long
Sleep is only love with nowhere left to go

[Pre-chorus]
Outside the pane the dark is settling in to stay
Your eyes are growing heavy, soft as evening light
Let go now, gently, drifting far away

[Chorus]
Duncan, the window is closed and the night is kind
Sleep can find you easy as breath, as sun can rise again
Nobody needs you to be anything but still and warm and mine, Duncan
Rest now, love, let the quiet in

[Bridge]
Hold nothing tonight but the warmth at your side
No wind can reach you, no dark can undo
Sleep is a river and you are its tide

[Chorus]
Duncan, the window is closed and the night is kind
Sleep can find you easy as breath, as sun can rise again
Nobody needs you to be anything but still and warm and mine, Duncan
Rest now, love, let the quiet in

[Outro]
White cotton settles soft against the warm and quiet pane
Sleep now, Duncan, safe until the morning comes again

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