Slow Turning Light
Style: Ambient wash

[Verse 1]
Somewhere a lamp is turning slow behind old railings
circling gently over water calm and deep
and the salt has dried soft upon the iron
waiting there while you drift into sleep

[Pre-chorus]
The light comes round so quietly, so easy
brushing past the window where you lie
and it asks for nothing, only that you close your eyes

[Chorus]
Maria, the night is holding you so gently
nothing here will hurry, nothing here will pull you far
you are steadier than any tide, Maria
safer than the turning of a distant star

[Verse 2]
The railings hum a little with the evening
the salt sits quiet, settled where it lies
and nothing out there needs you to be waking
only needs you resting with your eyes

[Bridge]
Rest now, let the slow light carry what it's holding
let the turning be the only thing that moves
everything is folded warm and near you
nothing in the dark has come to prove

[Chorus]
Maria, the night is holding you so gently
nothing here will hurry, nothing here will pull you far
you are steadier than any tide, Maria
safer than the turning of a distant star

[Outro]
Somewhere still that lamp turns soft behind the railings
and here you rest, so easy, so unhurried, so entwined

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