Copper and Quiet
Style: Rocking chair waltz

[Verse 1]
The copper kettle is cooling now on the iron ring above the sink
Somewhere a tap is letting its last slow drop fall soft and low
The whole house has folded its hands and settled into evening
And you are the warmest part of it, the reason it glows

[Chorus]
Wesley, Wesley, the night has come to hold you
Every quiet corner is keeping you from harm
Nothing in this house would ever let the cold near you
Wesley, you can rest here, safe inside this calm

[Verse 2]
The last light is going soft along the kitchen wall
Steam has faded slow into the sleepy air above the ring
You are curled up smaller than the shadows in the hall
And still you are the biggest, brightest, dearest thing

[Pre-chorus]
Hush now, the kettle has stopped its singing
Everything that moved today has finally slowed down too
So let your breathing follow, gentle, easy, clinging

[Chorus]
Wesley, Wesley, the night has come to hold you
Every quiet corner is keeping you from harm
Nothing in this house would ever let the cold near you
Wesley, you can rest here, safe inside this calm

[Bridge]
Sleep is only the house breathing slower around you
No one is going anywhere while you close your eyes
Somewhere the tap still drips its old and steady rhythm
Keeping the time until the morning light can rise

[Chorus]
Wesley, Wesley, the night has come to hold you
Every quiet corner is keeping you from harm
Nothing in this house would ever let the cold near you
Wesley, you can rest here, safe inside this calm

[Outro]
The kettle sits cool and easy on the darkened iron ring
And you sleep on, held safe, the softest, sweetest thing

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