The Slow Swing Home
Style: Cello cradle

[Verse 1]
Somewhere a small door swings open and closes so slow
keeping the hours the only thing it seems to know
back and forth in the dark it goes on turning
and under that rhythm is you, safe here below

[Pre-chorus]
Every tick is a hand that will not let you fall
every hush in this room is wrapped around you all
so let your eyes grow heavy as the quiet starts to call

[Chorus]
Ella, sleep now, the night is gentle and slow
you are held here closer than you'll ever know
softer than starlight, warmer than yellow
Ella, rest now, let the whole world go

[Verse 2]
The pendulum swings like a heart that never will race
steady and sure in its small and shadowy space
nothing can hurry it, nothing can shake it
and nothing will ever take you from this place

[Chorus]
Ella, sleep now, the night is gentle and slow
you are held here closer than you'll ever know
softer than starlight, warmer than yellow
Ella, rest now, let the whole world go

[Bridge]
Time can keep swinging its long patient song
you are not measured by how it moves along
you are the stillness it swings itself around

[Chorus]
Ella, sleep now, the night is gentle and slow
you are held here closer than you'll ever know
softer than starlight, warmer than yellow
Ella, rest now, let the whole world go

[Outro]
Somewhere that small door is closing so slow
and you are the reason it swings soft and low

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