Slower Than the Pendulum
Style: Kalimba night

[Verse 1]
Somewhere a small clock is swinging slow behind the glass tonight
Its face is pale and patient in the fading nursery light
You are the reason the whole room feels so still and warm
Nothing can reach you here, you're folded safe from harm

[Pre-chorus]
Hush now, the ticking is only time being kind
Drifting so gently it slips right out of your mind
Close your eyes soft, let the hours turn to hush

[Chorus]
Safa, the night is holding you like laughter held too long
Rafa could not love you deeper, nor sing a truer song
Safa, you're the warmest thing this quiet house has known
Sleep now, you are cherished, you are never here alone

[Verse 2]
Watch the faint reflection wobble gently on the pane
Nothing in this room could ever cause you any pain
You breathe so slow and even, like the dark is on your side
I could sit and watch you dreaming with a quiet kind of pride

[Pre-chorus]
Hush now, the ticking is only time being kind
Drifting so gently it slips right out of your mind
Close your eyes soft, let the hours turn to hush

[Chorus]
Safa, the night is holding you like laughter held too long
Rafa could not love you deeper, nor sing a truer song
Safa, you're the warmest thing this quiet house has known
Sleep now, you are cherished, you are never here alone

[Bridge]
Every slow tick folding into one long, gentle after
Wrapping you in something soft as evening laughter

[Chorus]
Safa, the night is holding you like laughter held too long
Rafa could not love you deeper, nor sing a truer song
Safa, you're the warmest thing this quiet house has known
Sleep now, you are cherished, you are never here alone

[Outro]
Somewhere that small clock still swings slow behind the glass
Sleep on, you are held here long after the ticking has passed

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