Soft as Soot Falling
Style: Humming choir

[Verse 1]
Something warm is sliding slowly down the old brick wall tonight
Settling soft in corners where the quiet loves to stay
You are held the way that darkness holds a candle's light
Nothing in this house will ever let your calm give way

[Pre-chorus]
Hush now, let the evening fold in close around your head
Every worry drifting out like smoke through a warm flue
Sleep is coming closer, closer, to your little bed

[Chorus]
Harley, Harley, sink into the deep and gentle dark
Nothing here will ever come to trouble you or harm
Rest here, little Harley, safe beside the fading spark
Warm as embers, held as gently as a sleepy arm

[Verse 2]
Grey soot slides down red brick walls in houses old and kind
Falling soft the way your eyelids fall when day is through
Every hearth has held a hundred sleepers in its mind
And tonight this whole house holds its breath for only you

[Bridge]
Rest your small hands, let the whole wide night grow still
Sleep will carry you as gently as it always will

[Chorus]
Harley, Harley, sink into the deep and gentle dark
Nothing here will ever come to trouble you or harm
Rest here, little Harley, safe beside the fading spark
Warm as embers, held as gently as a sleepy arm

[Outro]
Somewhere soot is falling soft down old and sleeping brick
You are warm, you are held, and morning will come quick

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