Ash and Ember
Style: Soft piano

[Verse 1]
The last of the fire is breathing so slow in the grate
and everything round you can wait until day, it can wait
the warmth in the ash is enough for the room and for you
so let your two hands and your worries go still and go loose

[Pre-chorus]
The house has gone soft with the hush of the coals dying down
every small sound in the dark has grown gentle and round
and sleep is the tide pulling slow at the edge of the town

[Chorus]
Geoffrey, the night has you safe in its arms
nothing can reach you, no cold and no harm
you are the warmest thing here in this room
held while the ash breathes its slow, easy plume

[Verse 2]
Somewhere a chimney lets one thread of smoke find the sky
while you are already halfway to dreaming, so heavy your eye
nobody needs you to wake, love, or answer, or move
there is only this quiet, and you, and the low steady groove

[Pre-chorus]
The house has gone soft with the hush of the coals dying down
every small sound in the dark has grown gentle and round
and sleep is the tide pulling slow at the edge of the town

[Chorus]
Geoffrey, the night has you safe in its arms
nothing can reach you, no cold and no harm
you are the warmest thing here in this room
held while the ash breathes its slow, easy plume

[Bridge]
Whatever the day asked of you, it is finished and done
rest now the way embers rest once they've given their sun

[Chorus]
Geoffrey, the night has you safe in its arms
nothing can reach you, no cold and no harm
you are the warmest thing here in this room
held while the ash breathes its slow, easy plume

[Outro]
The grate holds its warmth long after the flames have gone still
and you are held gently, and safely, and will be until

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