Softly the Night Leans In
Style: Clarinet nightlight

[Verse 1]
White linen lifts and settles slow across the open frame
You breathe so quiet the whole wide house seems to hold still
Nothing tonight will ever come to trouble you or claim you
Sleep finds you gentle as the curtain finds the windowsill

[Pre-chorus]
Somewhere a clock is counting soft and losing all its hurry
Your small hands loosen and the day slips out of them
Hush now, the dark is only quiet wearing evening's colour

[Chorus]
Hilda, the night has come to hold you closer than a blanket
Sleep like the calmest water, sleep like something mild
You are the warmest light this house has ever kept lit
Rest easy, Hilda, rest now, you sweet and steady child

[Verse 2]
The window breathes the linen out and draws it softly back again
You are folded into evening like a letter no one sent
Every worry of the day has wandered off to somewhere milder
Your breathing is the only sound this whole room ever meant

[Chorus]
Hilda, the night has come to hold you closer than a blanket
Sleep like the calmest water, sleep like something mild
You are the warmest light this house has ever kept lit
Rest easy, Hilda, rest now, you sweet and steady child

[Bridge]
Let the fabric drift and settle, let your eyelids do the same
Nothing needs you wide awake, nothing calls your name

[Chorus]
Hilda, the night has come to hold you closer than a blanket
Sleep like the calmest water, sleep like something mild
You are the warmest light this house has ever kept lit
Rest easy, Hilda, rest now, you sweet and steady child

[Outro]
Somewhere the linen settles still against the quiet frame
You are held here safely, Hilda, sleeping, always the same

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