Love Songs for Hugo

• Rusting Railings

  Irish air · Irish · Whistle · Lilting

  A quiet, plainspoken love song for Hugo, built around an old railing over dark water, for anyone who loves him steadily, whether the love is brand new or long since settled.

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  Verse 1

  The iron's gone soft with rust here where I stand and watch for you gulls keep drifting low over water and I know just what is true

  Pre-chorus

  I've waited by worse railings for people worth far less this one holds while the tide turns

  Chorus

  Hugo, you're the true glow the calm beneath it all Hugo, I keep coming back here just to hear you call

  Verse 2

  Dark water doesn't scare me not with you standing near the gulls don't need a reason and neither does this here

  Pre-chorus

  I've waited by worse railings for people worth far less this one holds while the tide turns

  Chorus

  Hugo, you're the true glow the calm beneath it all Hugo, I keep coming back here just to hear you call

  Bridge

  Let the rust keep spreading let the water stay unknown however far the tide goes out I'm glad to call this home

  Chorus

  Hugo, you're the true glow the calm beneath it all Hugo, I keep coming back here just to hear you call

  Outro

  The railings will keep rusting but I'll still be stood with you

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• Catch the Spark

  Blues slow dance · Blues · Guitar · Smoky

  A slow blues love song for Hugo, built on the way dry branches catch fire fast, sincere and steady for new love, old love, or anything in between.

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  Verse 1

  Dry branches wait for one small spark I struck the match out in the dark Smoke started rising, slow and thin And that was you, right from the start

  Pre-chorus

  I never planned to feel this much I just stood near and caught your touch Now watch how quick this fire will grow

  Chorus

  Hugo, you set the whole night blue There's not another spark like you Some loves take years, some loves are new But mine burns steady, Hugo, true

  Verse 2

  The pine cracks loud but holds its heat You're quiet, but you don't retreat I've watched you glow through harder wind No cold has ever made you leave

  Bridge

  Smoke rises up and finds the sky I don't need reasons, I don't need why You're just the warmth I'm standing by

  Chorus

  Hugo, you set the whole night blue There's not another spark like you Some loves take years, some loves are new But mine burns steady, Hugo, true

  Outro

  The branches burned down soft and slow And I'd still choose this fire's glow

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• Blue Before the Light

  Synth ballad · Synth · Eighties · Wide

  A quiet love song for early mornings and long love alike, built from the small ritual of lighting a kettle before dawn.

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  Verse 1

  Before the light gets in the room I strike the flame and think of you The kitchen holds a small blue bloom It knows the things I've yet to do

  Pre-chorus

  I never say it near enough How steady this whole thing became So let me say the quiet stuff

  Chorus

  Hugo, you're the warmth I trust No one else can hold my name like you Some loves fade to smoke and dust Ours just settles, steady and true

  Verse 2

  The water climbs before it sings I stand here waiting, half awake You're woven into ordinary things The kind of love that doesn't shake

  Chorus

  Hugo, you're the warmth I trust No one else can hold my name like you Some loves fade to smoke and dust Ours just settles, steady and true

  Bridge

  Not every love needs proving Some just needs the day to start No grand gesture, only knowing You are the calm inside my chart

  Chorus

  Hugo, you're the warmth I trust No one else can hold my name like you Some loves fade to smoke and dust Ours just settles, steady and true

  Outro

  The flame goes blue then fades to gold Like you, it never needs to be told

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