Sweeter Than the Dark
Style: Rain and piano

[Verse 1]
Green tomato vines are shivering soft in the dark earth tonight
Beside the old wooden barrel where the water sleeps so still
Everything outside has folded up its wings and gone to rest
Nothing in this whole wide garden means you any ill

[Chorus]
Peter, Peter, close your eyes now, let the night be sweeter
Every star has come to watch you drifting off to sleep
You are held here, you are wanted, nothing needs to reach you
Peter, in this quiet dark, there's nothing you must keep

[Verse 2]
The vines will wait until the morning, curled up safe and slow
Just like you beneath the blankets, curled the very same way
There is nothing in the shadows that could ever find you here
And there is nothing that can carry all this warmth away

[Pre-chorus]
Hush now, let the water barrel hold the moon a while
Let your breathing find the rhythm of the rain upon the glass
Something soft is gathering, waiting just to sing you home

[Chorus]
Peter, Peter, close your eyes now, let the night be sweeter
Every star has come to watch you drifting off to sleep
You are held here, you are wanted, nothing needs to reach you
Peter, in this quiet dark, there's nothing you must keep

[Bridge]
No one measures how much you are loved, there is no meter
Only this soft dark that wraps around you like a sleeve
You don't have to hold on to a single thing but resting

[Chorus]
Peter, Peter, close your eyes now, let the night be sweeter
Every star has come to watch you drifting off to sleep
You are held here, you are wanted, nothing needs to reach you
Peter, in this quiet dark, there's nothing you must keep

[Outro]
Somewhere the vines are dreaming green beside the sleeping barrel
And you are dreaming softer still, held safe till morning comes

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