The Yellow Light
Style: Music box

[Verse 1]
One small yellow light is glowing soft above the hall
and the old walls wear their flowers, dim and small
every shadow in this house is turning kind tonight
because you are the reason it feels safe and right

[Pre-chorus]
Close your eyes now, let the quiet come and stay
let the whole wide house breathe you gently far away
there is nothing you need carry, nothing you must find

[Chorus]
Lyla, Lyla, hush now, sleep is calling low
softer than the hallway light, softer than the snow
you are held here, you are wanted, you are warm and near
Lyla, nothing in the dark can ever touch you here

[Verse 2]
Down the narrow corridor the bulb still glows the same
watching over you as sleep comes calling out your name
every pattern on the paper folds you in its glow
keeping watch the whole night through, so soft and slow

[Bridge]
Rest your head, the night has nowhere else to be
nothing here will wake before you're ready to be free
let the light outside your door keep humming low and true
it only glows because it loves the shape of you

[Chorus]
Lyla, Lyla, hush now, sleep is calling low
softer than the hallway light, softer than the snow
you are held here, you are wanted, you are warm and near
Lyla, nothing in the dark can ever touch you here

[Outro]
The little light will burn on gently till the morning comes
watching over you the way it always has, my love

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