Gravel and Rain
Style: Fingerpicked night

[Verse 1]
Outside the wet gravel is shining under the black hedge
the whole street has gone quiet and settled at the edge
nothing out there needs you, not tonight
you can let the day go soft and lose its edge

[Chorus]
Summer, the dark has come to hold you, not to take you
nobody and nothing in this house will ever shake you
hush now, there is no hurry left at all
close your eyes, my Summer, let the quiet make you

[Verse 2]
Somewhere past the glass the rain has stopped its falling
only puddles left, dark and still and small
you are warmer than the whole night put together
safe here while the wide world does its crawling

[Pre-chorus]
Listen how the hush is spreading through the hedges
how the shine on the path has softened at its edges
this is the hour that folds you gently in

[Chorus]
Summer, the dark has come to hold you, not to take you
nobody and nothing in this house will ever shake you
hush now, there is no hurry left at all
close your eyes, my Summer, let the quiet make you

[Bridge]
Sleep is only the night leaning close to say it loves you
rain has washed the whole world clean just to prove you
you were always the softest thing that gravel ever kept

[Chorus]
Summer, the dark has come to hold you, not to take you
nobody and nothing in this house will ever shake you
hush now, there is no hurry left at all
close your eyes, my Summer, let the quiet make you

[Outro]
Somewhere the gravel still glistens under the black hedge
and you are already dreaming, safe past its edge

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