Salt on the Sill
Style: Kalimba night

[Verse 1]
The salt is drying soft upon the wooden sill tonight
and far off water beats a slow and steady drum
you're wrapped inside the quiet where the world has dimmed its light
so let your tired little eyes grow heavy, let them come

[Chorus]
Summer, close your eyes now, let the dark be kind
you are held here closer than the tide is to the shore
Summer, nothing reaches you, no storm and no wind
you are safe inside this room and safe in nothing more

[Verse 2]
The window holds the salt crust like a memory of waves
while the grey and restless water stays a country far away
nothing in that beating sea can touch you where you lay
you are warmer than the driftwood, calmer than the spray

[Pre-chorus]
Hear how the far water hushes as it turns and calls again
feel how the room stays gentle though the night outside is wide
let every worry drift like foam and settle low, and then

[Chorus]
Summer, close your eyes now, let the dark be kind
you are held here closer than the tide is to the shore
Summer, nothing reaches you, no storm and no wind
you are safe inside this room and safe in nothing more

[Bridge]
Let the salt keep drying slow upon the sill till dawn
you were loved before the water learned to move at all

[Chorus]
Summer, close your eyes now, let the dark be kind
you are held here closer than the tide is to the shore
Summer, nothing reaches you, no storm and no wind
you are safe inside this room and safe in nothing more

[Outro]
The salt will still be resting on the windowsill at light
and you'll still be the treasure that I'm holding through the night

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