The Slow Turning Light
Style: Clarinet nightlight

[Verse 1]
Somewhere a heavy ring is turning soft and slow tonight
and the glass hums low above the far dark water's light
you are warm here, safe here, curled beneath the quiet
while the world turns gently on without a single fright

[Chorus]
Eilidh, the light comes round again to find you
softly as a hand that reaches out to bind you
sleep now while the turning ring goes gamely on and on
nothing in the dark tonight will ever unwind you

[Verse 2]
Somewhere the iron turns so slow it barely seems to move
and the lens breathes out its hum like something you could prove
you are held here, kept here, wrapped in something steady
while the night rolls round you gently, patient as a groove

[Pre-chorus]
Hear how the hum stays low and never hurries through the dark
hear how the light keeps turning, patient, marking out its arc
that is how you're loved tonight, slow and sure and starting

[Chorus]
Eilidh, the light comes round again to find you
softly as a hand that reaches out to bind you
sleep now while the turning ring goes gamely on and on
nothing in the dark tonight will ever unwind you

[Bridge]
Let the turning be the only sound you need to know
let it carry you where warm and quiet always go

[Chorus]
Eilidh, the light comes round again to find you
softly as a hand that reaches out to bind you
sleep now while the turning ring goes gamely on and on
nothing in the dark tonight will ever unwind you

[Outro]
Somewhere still that heavy ring keeps turning through the night
and you are safe here, always, wrapped in that slow light

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