Embers Down to Sleep
Style: Soft piano

[Verse 1]
Grey ash is falling soft over embers burning low
Behind the rusty screen the warm light starts to slow
You watch it settle, curled up safe against my chest
Nothing in this whole wide world can touch your rest

[Chorus]
Sherry, Sherry, close your eyes and drift with me
Warm as coals still glowing underneath the grey
You are held here, Sherry, nothing asking you to stay awake
Sleep is yours tonight, and morning still can wait

[Verse 2]
Every spark has found its blanket, soft and slow and grey
Hushing down the way your breathing hushes into sleep
Outside the wind can holler, it will not reach this room
You are wrapped in something quieter than the moon

[Pre-chorus]
Feel how the fire keeps its heat beneath the ash it wears
Feel how my arms keep holding you the same way, unaware
Of anything but keeping you this warm, this safe, this near

[Chorus]
Sherry, Sherry, close your eyes and drift with me
Warm as coals still glowing underneath the grey
You are held here, Sherry, nothing asking you to stay awake
Sleep is yours tonight, and morning still can wait

[Bridge]
Let the last light dim behind its screen of rusted wire
Let it burn down slower than you ever need to try

[Chorus]
Sherry, Sherry, close your eyes and drift with me
Warm as coals still glowing underneath the grey
You are held here, Sherry, nothing asking you to stay awake
Sleep is yours tonight, and morning still can wait

[Outro]
Somewhere embers settle soft as ash falls slow and light
You are held the same way, gently, through the night

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