Lullabies for Arlo

• Heavy Leaves

  Soft piano · Piano · Soft · Sleepy

  A soft piano lullaby for sending a little one named Arlo off to sleep, built around the quiet drip of leaves after rain.

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  Verse 1

  Heavy leaves are dripping slow along the old brick wall Softly to the damp dark soil the quiet water falls Somewhere in this gentle hush I hear you breathing small Safe beneath the sleepy sky that over you softly calls

  Pre-chorus

  Every drop is falling slower now the night grows deep Nothing in this whole wide garden means you any harm So let your tired eyelids close and drift away to sleep

  Chorus

  Arlo, Arlo, close your eyes and rest your sleepy head The water on the leaves is singing soft above your bed Nothing but the quiet dark and warmth around you spread Arlo, you are held so gently, nothing left to dread

  Verse 2

  The wall has stood through darker nights and kept its garden warm Watching over sleepy things curled safe from any storm Just like that old wall is standing steady through the night I am watching over you until the morning light

  Chorus

  Arlo, Arlo, close your eyes and rest your sleepy head The water on the leaves is singing soft above your bed Nothing but the quiet dark and warmth around you spread Arlo, you are held so gently, nothing left to dread

  Bridge

  Let the dripping leaves become the softest lullaby No need to fear the shadows now, no need to wonder why You are so deeply loved, more than words can ever hold

  Chorus

  Arlo, Arlo, close your eyes and rest your sleepy head The water on the leaves is singing soft above your bed Nothing but the quiet dark and warmth around you spread Arlo, you are held so gently, nothing left to dread

  Outro

  The leaves will still be dripping when the morning finds its way Sleep now, little one, and know you're loved past break of day

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• A Circle of Gold

  Gentle acoustic · Acoustic · Nylon guitar · Soft

  A very slow, hushed lullaby for settling a little one to sleep, built around the warm glow a lamp throws across the wall.

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  Verse 1

  The little brass lamp throws a circle of gold on the wall and you are the reason that circle feels warm at all the pattern behind you goes soft and it blurs into rest while you settle deeper, the safest and calmest and best

  Chorus

  Arlo, the light is low and the whole room is still nothing can reach you, and nothing tonight ever will close up your eyes now, let go of the day and its noise Arlo, my Arlo, you're held here and loved beyond choice

  Verse 2

  I watch how the glow makes a halo of gold round your head and I think of a hundred small joys since you climbed into bed you hum without knowing, a sound only sleep lets you keep and I sit here beside you and guard every breath while you sleep

  Pre-chorus

  The wallpaper dims as the lamplight starts to grow low shadows are kind here, they move so unhurried and slow so let your small hands go loose and let your whole body go

  Chorus

  Arlo, the light is low and the whole room is still nothing can reach you, and nothing tonight ever will close up your eyes now, let go of the day and its noise Arlo, my Arlo, you're held here and loved beyond choice

  Bridge

  Whatever tomorrow decides that it brings you'll wake to the same steady, ordinary things this room and this light and this feeling of home and never one moment of feeling alone

  Chorus

  Arlo, the light is low and the whole room is still nothing can reach you, and nothing tonight ever will close up your eyes now, let go of the day and its noise Arlo, my Arlo, you're held here and loved beyond choice

  Outro

  The brass lamp keeps burning its small, steady gold long after you've drifted where dreams start to unfold

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• Behind the Curtain

  Music box · Tender · Delicate

  A slow music box lullaby for settling a little one to sleep, built around the quiet safety of a curtained window on a cold night.

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  Verse 1

  Behind the curtain the cold glass is weeping soft and slow While you stay warm where the lamplight has nowhere else to go The night can knock but it never gets past the windowsill So rest here easy, the whole wide house is calm and still

  Pre-chorus

  Let the hush come down like snow across the floor Every worry waits outside the door Close your eyes now, there is nothing you must do

  Chorus

  Arlo, Arlo, the dark is only lace Nothing in this room would ever take your place Sleep is just a boat and you're the one it's carrying home Arlo, you were never meant to feel alone

  Verse 2

  The glass keeps its small cold secret, drop by drop by drop While the blanket holds you steady and it never has to stop Somewhere past the curtain the whole night is turning grey But in here it's only breathing, soft as breath can stay

  Bridge

  However far the morning seems, however long the night You are held here, quiet, certain, wrapped in gentle light

  Chorus

  Arlo, Arlo, the dark is only lace Nothing in this room would ever take your place Sleep is just a boat and you're the one it's carrying home Arlo, you were never meant to feel alone

  Outro

  The glass will dry by morning, quiet as it came Rest now, little steady heart, safe inside your name

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