Soot and Ash
Style: Fingerpicked night

[Verse 1]
Soot is falling soft and slow down the old red chimney
Settling into ash as white as the winter moon
Nothing hurries in this house once the fire grows sleepy
Everything you need is here in this quiet room

[Pre-chorus]
Close your eyes now, let the whole wide world go dim
Every worry you were holding, let it drift and thin
Sleep is only waiting for you, right here, tucked in

[Chorus]
Vanessa, the night is folding softly around your bed
Warm as the ash that catches every ember's fall
Nothing can reach you here, no shadow, no need for dread
Vanessa, you are the safest, softest thing of all

[Verse 2]
The brick stays warm long after the last flame has gone quiet
Holding its heat the way this house is holding you
Outside the wind might wander, but you need not mind it
Inside there's only stillness and the whole night through

[Bridge]
Rest your small hands, let go of the tumbling day
Down you drift like soot through air, so easy, so slow
Nothing can catch you here but comfort on its way

[Chorus]
Vanessa, the night is folding softly around your bed
Warm as the ash that catches every ember's fall
Nothing can reach you here, no shadow, no need for dread
Vanessa, you are the safest, softest thing of all

[Outro]
Somewhere the last soot settles quiet into white ash sleeping
And you are settling too, held safe till morning's keeping

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