Songs for Angela

Verse 1

Boxes stacked up on the bus seats hats keep sliding on the vinyl nobody planned this mad old ride but you make chaos feel like magic

Pre-chorus

Someone's laughing near the window music's leaking from a phone hold on tight, here it comes

Chorus

Angela, get the candles ready hands are clapping, steady, steady you're the spark in every room Angela, keep that party heady

Verse 2

Paper crown is slipping sideways tinsel caught up in your pocket nothing here was ever tidy but you shine through all the muddle

Pre-chorus

Someone's laughing near the window music's leaking from a phone hold on tight, here it comes

Chorus

Angela, get the candles ready hands are clapping, steady, steady you're the spark in every room Angela, keep that party heady

Bridge

Every year the bus rolls onward every year we bring the noise we would stack the world in boxes just to hand you all this joy

Chorus

Angela, get the candles ready hands are clapping, steady, steady you're the spark in every room Angela, keep that party heady

Outro

Hats still sliding on the vinyl we're not done till you say stop

Verse 1

Metal chairs scrape on the floor Under hoops we set the stage Every year we ask for more Just to watch you turn the page

Chorus

Angela, light up this room Everybody came to see you shine Angela, we found you soon There was never any other name in line

Verse 2

Linoleum shakes with our feet Someone's cranking up the sound We keep clapping out the beat Glad that you are still around

Pre-chorus

Hold your breath, here it comes Cake and noise and all our love Feel the room start to hum

Chorus

Angela, light up this room Everybody came to see you shine Angela, we found you soon There was never any other name in line

Bridge

However far you've gone or grown This crowd still calls you home Nobody here could stand to lose you We keep choosing you

Chorus

Angela, light up this room Everybody came to see you shine Angela, we found you soon There was never any other name in line

Outro

Fold the chairs, the games not done We'll be back next year, the same, for one

Verse 1

Glasses lined up, empty and grinning neon buzzing, the night keeps spinning you tell a story, the whole room leans in that's the kind of night we're in

Pre-chorus

We keep ordering another round waiting on that trumpet sound here it comes, so lift it high

Chorus

Angela, the night is yours tonight every glass we raise is in your light nobody fills a room the way you do this whole rowdy crowd adores you

Verse 2

Somebody's shouting your name at the bar you laugh like you don't know how loved you are the band plays louder, the horns come in this is where the night begins

Chorus

Angela, the night is yours tonight every glass we raise is in your light nobody fills a room the way you do this whole rowdy crowd adores you

Bridge

Sticky tables, sticky floor we'd do this every year and more here's to you, above the noise

Chorus

Angela, the night is yours tonight every glass we raise is in your light nobody fills a room the way you do this whole rowdy crowd adores you

Outro

Glasses empty, hearts still full this is the night we'll always pull

Verse 1

The phone hums low beside the bed Half your sentence lost, half said Still I know that voice by heart Angela, you were never far apart

Pre-chorus

I don't need a clean line to hear you Static or silence, I'd know if it's true Just say my name and I'm already there

Chorus

Angela, hold on, don't hang up yet You're the one I never could forget Angela, through the noise and the hiss There's no sound that could ever ruin this

Verse 2

You laugh and the wire crackles too Like even the night wants to hear you I press the phone closer to my ear Trying to keep every word you're near

Bridge

Some nights the signal breaks and fades But what we are was never made Out of clear lines or perfect calls It's steadier than that when it falls

Chorus

Angela, hold on, don't hang up yet You're the one I never could forget Angela, through the noise and the hiss There's no sound that could ever ruin this

Outro

The receiver's warm against my face Angela, you're still my favourite place

Verse 1

I set two mugs out on the step the coffee going slow and grey you sat down close and took my hand and something in me eased that day

Pre-chorus

No one's watching, nothing planned just this porch and this small light and I keep learning how to stand closer to you every night

Chorus

Angela, you steady me like rain that finds the thirsty ground you never asked to be my calm but Angela, that's what you found

Verse 2

The watering can sits by the wall forgotten since the summer rain you laughed at how we let it rust and I loved you plain, not for a gain

Pre-chorus

No one's watching, nothing planned just this porch and this small light and I keep learning how to stand closer to you every night

Chorus

Angela, you steady me like rain that finds the thirsty ground you never asked to be my calm but Angela, that's what you found

Bridge

Some hearts need the noise to know they're loved mine just needs you here holding still while the coffee cools that's how I know love's near

Chorus

Angela, you steady me like rain that finds the thirsty ground you never asked to be my calm but Angela, that's what you found

Outro

Two mugs cooling on the step and I'd still choose this every day

Verse 1

The hum was loud, the chairs were cold I counted tiles to keep from breaking You reached over, took my hand And somehow that made me feel bold

Pre-chorus

Nobody chooses where they wait But I would sit through every hour If you stayed close like that

Chorus

Angela, you steady me Some kind of calm nobody else could be You don't need soft light or perfect scenes Just Angela, right here, next to me

Verse 2

Rooms like that make strangers small But you looked over, made me certain We could sit through anything Long as you were there at all

Bridge

It's not the place, it's never been the place It's the way you make the waiting kind You turn the ordinary into something I don't mind

Chorus

Angela, you steady me Some kind of calm nobody else could be You don't need soft light or perfect scenes Just Angela, right here, next to me

Outro

Let the lights hum on above us I'd wait in any room with you

Verse 1

Somewhere a train runs soft on metal tracks tonight and headlights sweep in slow across the ceiling white you're wrapped up warm and held here safe within the light drifting where the dark turns gentle, turns to quiet

Chorus

Angela, the night is only kindness in disguise close your Angela eyes and let the hours go by nothing here can touch you, nothing here will harm you are held so closely, you are always warm

Verse 2

The glass hums low while shadows learn to gently glide and every passing light will find you and pass by so let the clicking rhythm carry you inside a dream as steady as the tracks beneath the sky

Pre-chorus

Hush now, let your breathing slow to match the beat of wheels that turn so far off, soft beneath your sleep you're carried on, you're carried safe, you're carried sweet

Chorus

Angela, the night is only kindness in disguise close your Angela eyes and let the hours go by nothing here can touch you, nothing here will harm you are held so closely, you are always warm

Bridge

No distance is too far for love to find its way every light that sweeps the dark is watching over you

Chorus

Angela, the night is only kindness in disguise close your Angela eyes and let the hours go by nothing here can touch you, nothing here will harm you are held so closely, you are always warm

Outro

The tracks run on to somewhere soft while you lie still and the light moves on, but you are loved, and always will

Verse 1

A small yellow glow behind the frosted glass is watching over you tonight It warms the old wallpaper with such a gentle, quiet, patient kind of light Nothing in this room will ever come to trouble you or give you fright Rest inside the hush that's holding you so soft and safe and tight

Pre-chorus

The house breathes slow around you now, its every corner still and kind Every little shadow settles down to rest along with you tonight Close your eyes and drift on further, leave the waking world behind

Chorus

Angela, the light is low and gold and it will never fade away Nothing here can reach you now, so let the worry go Angela, you're wrapped in warmth that only deepens as you stay Sleep and know that you are loved more than you'll ever know

Verse 2

The peeling paper on the wall has seen a hundred nights like this one pass It watched the lamp burn low and steady while the hours moved so slow and vast You are the reason all this quiet feels so full and never sparse Every breath you take tonight is safe within this gentle glass

Pre-chorus

The house breathes slow around you now, its every corner still and kind Every little shadow settles down to rest along with you tonight Close your eyes and drift on further, leave the waking world behind

Chorus

Angela, the light is low and gold and it will never fade away Nothing here can reach you now, so let the worry go Angela, you're wrapped in warmth that only deepens as you stay Sleep and know that you are loved more than you'll ever know

Bridge

However far the night stretches out beyond this room so small and warm You are held here safe and steady, far away from any harm

Chorus

Angela, the light is low and gold and it will never fade away Nothing here can reach you now, so let the worry go Angela, you're wrapped in warmth that only deepens as you stay Sleep and know that you are loved more than you'll ever know

Outro

The little bulb still glows behind the glass while you are dreaming deep and slow Sleep on, Angela, the light will keep you safe till morning's glow

Verse 1

Wicker creaks soft as I rock you slow tonight Every little sound is a gentle kind of light Wrapped beneath the blanket that was knitted just for you Nothing in this whole wide world can touch you through and through

Pre-chorus

Hush now, let the floorboards hum their quiet tune Close your eyes and drift beneath the watching moon Rest is coming closer, closer, warm and slow and true

Chorus

Angela, the night is holding you so near Sleep is soft and nothing waits for you to fear Angela, my Angela, so calm, so small, so free Rest inside the warmth that only you could be

Verse 2

Floorboards sigh beneath the chair that rocks so light Your breathing finds its rhythm with the fading light Blankets keep you gathered like the safest kind of nest You are held, you are treasured, let your eyes now rest

Chorus

Angela, the night is holding you so near Sleep is soft and nothing waits for you to fear Angela, my Angela, so calm, so small, so free Rest inside the warmth that only you could be

Bridge

Every creak a lullaby, every hush a hand Soft as knitted wool against the shifting sand of dreams

Chorus

Angela, the night is holding you so near Sleep is soft and nothing waits for you to fear Angela, my Angela, so calm, so small, so free Rest inside the warmth that only you could be

Outro

Wicker settles quiet, and the blanket holds you tight Sleep now, Angela, wrapped safe within the night