The Chair Keeps Time
Style: Rocking chair waltz

[Verse 1]
Somewhere below us the wicker is creaking soft on the floor
calling you further from wherever the day has been
easing you down into shadows that ask nothing more
only to rest now, quiet and warm and unseen

[Chorus]
Violet, hush now, the dark is a friend tonight
holding you gently the way that the old chair sways
nobody's calling you back into any light
Violet, you're held here through all of the quiet days

[Verse 2]
Somewhere the floorboard is learning the weight of the chair
taking each rock of it slow, like a breath let go
nothing untoward in the dark, only you resting there
wrapped in the hush that the wicker was rocking so slow

[Pre-chorus]
Let your small hands go loose now, let your eyes grow still
nothing in this room wants anything more from you
only the creak, only sleep, only love's quiet will

[Chorus]
Violet, hush now, the dark is a friend tonight
holding you gently the way that the old chair sways
nobody's calling you back into any light
Violet, you're held here through all of the quiet days

[Bridge]
Even the wicker is slowing its voice to a hush
folding its creak into something as soft as your name

[Chorus]
Violet, hush now, the dark is a friend tonight
holding you gently the way that the old chair sways
nobody's calling you back into any light
Violet, you're held here through all of the quiet days

[Outro]
Somewhere the chair has gone still on the darkened floor
and you are the reason it never needed to move once more

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