The Slow Turning Light
Style: Music box

[Verse 1]
Somewhere a lamp turns slow behind glass so thick and clear
sweeping its beam out gently to say that you are near
brass and light moving softly through the quiet of the night
turning just to tell you that everything's all right

[Pre-chorus]
The turning slows as shadows learn to settle and to stay
and every beam that circles seems to hum a name away
closer now, the light comes low to lay you down to rest

[Chorus]
Leia, sleep beneath the turning glow
the whole wide dark is holding you so slow
nothing here will ever let you down
Leia, safe beneath the lens's crown

[Verse 2]
Every slow rotation folds you deeper into calm
you are wrapped in something steady like a warm and open palm
the light will keep on turning long after you are still
watching over every hollow, every gentle hill

[Bridge]
Rest your head, the light will keep its quiet, endless round
nothing in this darkened room will ever make a sound
you are held by something older and as patient as a prayer

[Chorus]
Leia, sleep beneath the turning glow
the whole wide dark is holding you so slow
nothing here will ever let you down
Leia, safe beneath the lens's crown

[Outro]
The lamp turns low and lower till its light is just a hum
sleep now, little Leia, morning's soft and slow to come

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