Soot and Ember
Style: Fingerpicked night

[Verse 1]
The soot slips down the brick and settles soft and slow
A small dark hush is falling into the grate below
Everything loud has gone to sleep an hour ago
And you are here beside me, warm in the fire's glow

[Pre-chorus]
The last little ember is closing its eye
Nothing tonight is asking you to try
So let your breathing slow and settle like a sigh

[Chorus]
Flora, the night has folded soft around you now
Nothing out there can find you, nothing knows how
Rest is a room that only opens for Flora
Sleep like the hush that falls before the dawn

[Verse 2]
The grate holds all its quiet like a secret kept till morning
Not one spark left to flicker or to give the smallest warning
Even the chimney's breathing has gone soft and slow and long
And you are the small hush this whole house is dreaming on

[Pre-chorus]
The last little ember is closing its eye
Nothing tonight is asking you to try
So let your breathing slow and settle like a sigh

[Chorus]
Flora, the night has folded soft around you now
Nothing out there can find you, nothing knows how
Rest is a room that only opens for Flora
Sleep like the hush that falls before the dawn

[Bridge]
Somewhere the last soot settles without a single sound
And you are held here gently, the safest thing around

[Chorus]
Flora, the night has folded soft around you now
Nothing out there can find you, nothing knows how
Rest is a room that only opens for Flora
Sleep like the hush that falls before the dawn

[Outro]
The grate goes dark and easy as the last soot comes to rest
And you sleep on, the quietest thing, the warmest and the best

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