Yellow Light on a Green Wool Knee
Style: Glockenspiel

[Verse 1]
Yellow light is falling soft across your bending knee tonight
Green wool keeps you gathered in, so drowsy and so light
Every little sound has slowed to nothing but your breath
Sleep is only kindness now, it never means a thing like death

[Chorus]
Leilani, close your eyes, the lamp will keep on glowing gold
Nothing in this quiet house can touch you or grow cold
Rest inside the warmth that loves you, hushed and hidden deep
Leilani, drift away, Leilani, fall asleep

[Verse 2]
Under all that soft green wool your small knee starts to still
Nothing asks a thing of you, no climbing, no long hill
You can let the whole day loosen out of every limb
Darkness is a gentle room and you were made for him

[Pre-chorus]
Hush now, let the lamplight hold the shape of you a while
Nothing but the quiet dark and one small drowsy smile
Come and let the night wrap round you soft as any tune

[Chorus]
Leilani, close your eyes, the lamp will keep on glowing gold
Nothing in this quiet house can touch you or grow cold
Rest inside the warmth that loves you, hushed and hidden deep
Leilani, drift away, Leilani, fall asleep

[Bridge]
You are held the way the light holds on to green
Soft and slow and certain, never harsh, never mean

[Chorus]
Leilani, close your eyes, the lamp will keep on glowing gold
Nothing in this quiet house can touch you or grow cold
Rest inside the warmth that loves you, hushed and hidden deep
Leilani, drift away, Leilani, fall asleep

[Outro]
Somewhere still that small lamp glows on wool as green as spring
You are safe inside its light, however softly you are sleeping

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