A Circle of Light
Style: Accordion cradle

[Verse 1]
A yellow circle falls across the carpet floor tonight
warming all the little folded things laid soft and low
somewhere in that quiet gold you're gathered in the light
and everything is slower now, and nothing needs to go

[Chorus]
Seren, Seren, close your eyes and let the evening keep you
the house breathes low around you like a friend
Seren, hush now, let the dark be kind and gently steer you
into sleep, and rest, and morning, and again

[Verse 2]
The lamp beside the washing hums a soft and steady tune
folding shadows into shapes that never mean you harm
you are wrapped in something warmer than an afternoon
held the way the light holds every quiet little charm

[Pre-chorus]
Nothing in this house is louder than your breathing now
the dark outside has nothing that could reach you here
so let your small hands loosen, let your shoulders bow

[Chorus]
Seren, Seren, close your eyes and let the evening keep you
the house breathes low around you like a friend
Seren, hush now, let the dark be kind and gently steer you
into sleep, and rest, and morning, and again

[Bridge]
Every fold of cloth was smoothed by someone's careful hand
and every bit of you was loved that same soft way

[Chorus]
Seren, Seren, close your eyes and let the evening keep you
the house breathes low around you like a friend
Seren, hush now, let the dark be kind and gently steer you
into sleep, and rest, and morning, and again

[Outro]
The circle of light will still be waiting when you wake
and you'll be just as loved as you were, for its own sake

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