Down Where the Water Turns Slow
Style: Accordion cradle

[Verse 1]
The water is folding in slow against the ladder's rusted rail
Somewhere a gate has swung shut and the harbour breathes out its sail
Nothing tonight is asking anything of you at all
You're wrapped where the dark can never find a way to pull you pale

[Chorus]
Emerson, the night has laid its whole weight down so gentle
Close as a hand that never once has let you go
Rest now, there is nothing here that means you any trouble
Emerson, the dark tonight is only here to hold you slow

[Verse 2]
Far off a bell is swinging soft on ropes too tired to ring it loud
Every small sound out there has wrapped itself in a low grey cloud
You are the warmest thing in all this hush and cooling air
Nothing that moves tonight would ever want to break this shroud

[Pre-chorus]
Hear how the water settles, giving up its restless reaching
Even the old iron rail has stopped its creaking and its teaching
Something is leaning close now, ready to start its gentle preaching

[Chorus]
Emerson, the night has laid its whole weight down so gentle
Close as a hand that never once has let you go
Rest now, there is nothing here that means you any trouble
Emerson, the dark tonight is only here to hold you slow

[Bridge]
Let every small worry drift down and out with the turning tide
Nothing needs you awake to keep it steady at your side

[Chorus]
Emerson, the night has laid its whole weight down so gentle
Close as a hand that never once has let you go
Rest now, there is nothing here that means you any trouble
Emerson, the dark tonight is only here to hold you slow

[Outro]
The water still folds soft against the ladder, patient, slow and true
Sleep now, none of this old dark was ever anything but you

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