Songs for Kayla

Verse 1

There's a small brass key resting quiet on the sill tonight while the waves roll far below and no one minds their sound you are wrapped up warm and heavy, breathing slow and light and the whole wide house is settled, calm and safe around

Pre-chorus

The water can crash and turn as much as it may need nothing has to reach this room, nothing has to try so let your eyes grow heavy now and let your hands stay free

Chorus

Kayla, the night is holding you gently as you dream the key stays on the windowsill, steady in its place nothing out there in the dark is stronger than it seems and Kayla, you are held here in the softest kind of grace

Verse 2

Somewhere far off the tide keeps turning, endless and unseen but here the lamp burns low and kind, just for you to keep you don't need locks or keys tonight to know you're safe and clean only the sound of breathing slow, sliding into sleep

Bridge

Let the waves keep their long and rolling story you are the quiet centre it moves around nothing loud can touch this small, warm glory nothing sharp can find you, sleeping sound

Chorus

Kayla, the night is holding you gently as you dream the key stays on the windowsill, steady in its place nothing out there in the dark is stronger than it seems and Kayla, you are held here in the softest kind of grace

Outro

The brass key rests still on the sill as morning starts to climb and you are safe and sleeping, held through all this quiet time

Verse 1

Soot comes tumbling slowly down the old red brick tonight settling soft as breath into a bed of ashes white and I am watching over you until the morning light holding every worry far outside your candle's light

Pre-chorus

The fire is fading low but its warmth will never leave the whole wide house is quiet now, it only wants to breathe so close your eyes, my darling, let the hush come in and stay

Chorus

Kayla, the night is holding you as gently as I can softer than the falling soot, safer than any plan you are the warmest ember that this house has ever known Kayla, sleep now, you are never, ever left alone

Verse 2

The brick stays warm long after every little flame is spent kept safe inside the chimney like a small contented breath and you will keep that warmth with you through every hour of rest nothing in the dark tonight will ever pass this test

Pre-chorus

The fire is fading low but its warmth will never leave the whole wide house is quiet now, it only wants to breathe so close your eyes, my darling, let the hush come in and stay

Chorus

Kayla, the night is holding you as gently as I can softer than the falling soot, safer than any plan you are the warmest ember that this house has ever known Kayla, sleep now, you are never, ever left alone

Bridge

Every fleck of soot was once a bright and burning spark and you still carry all that light down through the quiet dark

Chorus

Kayla, the night is holding you as gently as I can softer than the falling soot, safer than any plan you are the warmest ember that this house has ever known Kayla, sleep now, you are never, ever left alone

Outro

The last soot settles gently on the ashes turning white rest now in the warmth you leave behind you every night

Verse 1

One small light is glowing past the pine trees now soft and low and gold above a quiet bough it watches over you as shadows drift and roam telling every corner of the dark you're home

Pre-chorus

The branches sway so slowly, holding back the night and nothing out there needs to steal away that light so let your eyes grow heavy, let the hush come in

Chorus

Kayla, close your eyes now, let the dark be kind the whole wide world is quiet and it's yours to leave behind no failure and no fear here, only breath and rest Kayla, you are held here, you are always blessed

Verse 2

The pines stand very still now, keeping watch till dawn warm light behind the branches says the day has gone nothing needs your worry, nothing needs your fight just the gentle folding of the velvet night

Bridge

Somewhere past the window one small flame will stay burning soft and steady till the edge of day you don't need to watch it, you can let it keep

Chorus

Kayla, close your eyes now, let the dark be kind the whole wide world is quiet and it's yours to leave behind no failure and no fear here, only breath and rest Kayla, you are held here, you are always blessed

Outro

The light will still be glowing when the morning comes and you'll wake up as loved as when the darkness was