Slow the Night Down
Style: Vibraphone drift

[Verse 1]
Heavy leaves are dripping raindrops slow above your head
Finding their way down to where the grey hood bends
Every drop that lands is soft as anything I've said
And nothing in this whole wide world will touch you, love depends

[Pre-chorus]
So let the hush come closer, let your small hands still
Let the dark feel like a blanket pulled up to your chin
And drift a little further where the quiet always

[Chorus]
Joe, the night is holding you so gently as you go
Nothing here will hurry you, there's nowhere you must be
Joe, I'll stay right here and watch the way you glow
Sleeping soft and steady as the slow tide of the sea

[Verse 2]
Somewhere past the window the rain has settled to a hush
Every sound out there has learned to move so slow
And underneath the leaves and all that gentle, falling brush
You are warmer than the whole wide world will ever know

[Pre-chorus]
So let the hush come closer, let your small hands still
Let the dark feel like a blanket pulled up to your chin
And drift a little further where the quiet always

[Chorus]
Joe, the night is holding you so gently as you go
Nothing here will hurry you, there's nowhere you must be
Joe, I'll stay right here and watch the way you glow
Sleeping soft and steady as the slow tide of the sea

[Bridge]
Nothing needs you now but rest, and rest will come to find you
Wrapped in every quiet thing that loves you from behind you

[Chorus]
Joe, the night is holding you so gently as you go
Nothing here will hurry you, there's nowhere you must be
Joe, I'll stay right here and watch the way you glow
Sleeping soft and steady as the slow tide of the sea

[Outro]
The leaves will keep on dripping long after you're asleep
And I'll be here beside you while the whole wide night stays deep

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