Wheels on the Far Line
Style: Kalimba night

[Verse 1]
I hear the far wheels clicking soft along the iron track
and I pull the blanket higher and I tuck it at your back
the whole wide dark can rumble but it cannot reach this room
because you are the warmest thing inside this quiet gloom

[Pre-chorus]
The sound is going somewhere but you never have to go
you can let your eyelids fall as slow as falling snow
and drift a little further while I hum the hush I know

[Chorus]
Margaret, Margaret, the night is soft and wide
there is nowhere safer than right here at my side
sleep and let the distance carry all its noise away
Margaret, you are held here until the break of day

[Verse 2]
Somewhere down the valley a train is easing out of sight
carrying its little lamps like fireflies through the night
but you don't need to follow it, you don't need to roam
this small and steady heartbeat is the only place called home

[Pre-chorus]
The sound is going somewhere but you never have to go
you can let your eyelids fall as slow as falling snow
and drift a little further while I hum the hush I know

[Chorus]
Margaret, Margaret, the night is soft and wide
there is nowhere safer than right here at my side
sleep and let the distance carry all its noise away
Margaret, you are held here until the break of day

[Bridge]
Let the tracks keep singing far beyond the windowpane
you are not the traveller, you are the one who stays
wrapped in every softness that this small room can contain

[Chorus]
Margaret, Margaret, the night is soft and wide
there is nowhere safer than right here at my side
sleep and let the distance carry all its noise away
Margaret, you are held here until the break of day

[Outro]
The wheels have faded quiet somewhere past the window glass
and you are already sleeping, safe as any dark can pass

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