The Slow Turning Light
Style: Humming choir

[Verse 1]
High in the stone tower a brass wheel is turning so slow
Sweeping its light out across the dark water below
Watching the harbour the way that I'm watching you now
Round and round goes the beam and it never lets go

[Chorus]
Elin, my love, close your eyes as the light comes around
Soft as a hand laid so gentle on hallowed ground
Nothing can reach you while this old light keeps its turn
Sleep now, Elin, there's nowhere so safe to be found

[Verse 2]
The water is quiet and black and it keeps its own time
Holding the hush of the night like a slow, easy rhyme
You are the warmth that the tower is turning to find
Wrapped up in blankets and breathing so calm, so sublime

[Pre-chorus]
Somewhere the lens keeps its patient and endless rotation
Sending its glow out to guide every small, drifting creation
And it will circle all night just to bring you this feeling

[Chorus]
Elin, my love, close your eyes as the light comes around
Soft as a hand laid so gentle on hallowed ground
Nothing can reach you while this old light keeps its turn
Sleep now, Elin, there's nowhere so safe to be found

[Bridge]
Let the hum of the world grow as soft as a sigh
While the beam keeps its promise to never say goodbye
You are held, you are kept, you are wrapped in the glow

[Chorus]
Elin, my love, close your eyes as the light comes around
Soft as a hand laid so gentle on hallowed ground
Nothing can reach you while this old light keeps its turn
Sleep now, Elin, there's nowhere so safe to be found

[Outro]
Somewhere that old lamp is turning still over the water
Watching you sleep like the calmest and gentlest daughter

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