Soft Against the Brick
Style: Kalimba night

[Verse 1]
Snowflakes touch the old brick wall and pause there for a moment
Then they slide so slowly down into the gutter's quiet keep
Everything outside is settling into hush and soft devotion
And you are wrapped up warmer than the whole world falls asleep

[Chorus]
Maurice, close your eyes now, let the night wrap round you slow
Nothing here will hurry you, no reason to release
There is time enough for dreaming, time for you to grow
Sleep now, little Maurice, gentle as the fleece

[Verse 2]
Every flake that lands tonight will melt and disappear so gently
Nothing stays too long against the wall before it softly slides
But you are held here always, nothing about you is momentary
You're the warmth that never leaves no matter how the cold outside

[Pre-chorus]
Somewhere past the window frost is drawing quiet little patterns
And the whole street's gone to sleep beneath a blanket thick and white
So let your busy little thoughts go still like snow that slowly softens

[Chorus]
Maurice, close your eyes now, let the night wrap round you slow
Nothing here will hurry you, no reason to release
There is time enough for dreaming, time for you to grow
Sleep now, little Maurice, gentle as the fleece

[Bridge]
Hush now, nothing needs to move, nothing needs to hurry through the dark
You are safe as houses, warm as embers holding their last spark

[Chorus]
Maurice, close your eyes now, let the night wrap round you slow
Nothing here will hurry you, no reason to release
There is time enough for dreaming, time for you to grow
Sleep now, little Maurice, gentle as the fleece

[Outro]
The last flake settles softly, brief and bright against the sleeping brick
And you are loved as surely as the morning always follows quick

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