Lullabies for Kimberly

• The Slow Sweep Home

  Flute and pad · Flute · Airy · Floating

  A slow, quiet lullaby for settling a very young child to sleep, built around the steady turning light of a distant lighthouse.

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  Verse 1

  Far off on the shore a quiet light begins to turn warm and white it circles like it's calling you by name watch it drift so slowly over waters calm and still gentle as a breath that never wavers, never strains

  Pre-chorus

  everything is settling, the whole wide world grows small nothing here can hurry you, no reason left to keep just the light that turns for you, patient through it all

  Chorus

  Kimberly, the beam is sweeping soft across the dark carrying you gently to the edges of your sleep every turn it makes belongs to you and only you Kimberly, the night is wide but you are safe to keep

  Verse 2

  the tide goes out so slowly you would hardly see it move the same way sleep is pulling at the corners of your mind nothing in this evening needs an answer or a reason only rest, and you, and all the softness left behind

  Chorus

  Kimberly, the beam is sweeping soft across the dark carrying you gently to the edges of your sleep every turn it makes belongs to you and only you Kimberly, the night is wide but you are safe to keep

  Bridge

  no storm can find you here beneath this quiet glow the light will keep on turning long after you let go

  Chorus

  Kimberly, the beam is sweeping soft across the dark carrying you gently to the edges of your sleep every turn it makes belongs to you and only you Kimberly, the night is wide but you are safe to keep

  Outro

  somewhere far away that steady light keeps turning still and you are held inside its glow, so warm, so safe, so still

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• Slow as a Marble

  Folk cradle song · Folk · Dulcimer · Rocking

  A gentle folk cradle song for settling a little one named Kimberly, built around the slow roll of a marble on a windowsill.

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  Verse 1

  A little glass marble is rolling so slow across the sill tonight Tracing its path where the wood tips gently toward the fading light You are held here safely, wrapped up warm and near And you rock the way that marble does, so easy and so right

  Pre-chorus

  The window goes quiet and the house breathes low and long Every small sound settles into something like a song And the dark leans in soft to carry you along

  Chorus

  Kimberly, the night is yours to keep and hold so tenderly Sleep is rolling closer now as slow as it can be Nothing in this room will ever come to trouble you Kimberly, you're loved in ways too big for me to see

  Verse 2

  The marble finds the low edge and it rests there, warm and still It doesn't hurry anywhere, it simply has its fill You can let go now the way that small glass sphere does Settling soft into the corner of the sill

  Bridge

  Whatever rolled through your small day is finished now and done Rest your head where all the quiet and the warmth become one

  Chorus

  Kimberly, the night is yours to keep and hold so tenderly Sleep is rolling closer now as slow as it can be Nothing in this room will ever come to trouble you Kimberly, you're loved in ways too big for me to see

  Outro

  Somewhere on the sill a small glass marble has gone still Sleep now, you are held, and you always, always will

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• Deep in the Wicker Shade

  Rocking chair waltz · Waltz · Rocking · Slow

  A slow rocking waltz for settling a little one to sleep, built around the hush of a hooded pram and the safety of being watched over.

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  Verse 1

  The hood curves low and folds the light away so soft cradling you gently as the evening drifts aloft Wrapped in wool that holds the warmth the whole night long you rest inside the hush of one small quiet song

  Chorus

  Kimberly, the dark leans down to keep you near nothing in this shadow ever brings you fear Close your eyes, the night has you, Kimberly, so still held inside the shade until the stars all spill

  Verse 2

  Somewhere past the hood the wind has lost its way tired now, it settles where the shadows stay You breathe so slow beneath the woven, curving frame and sleep has learned by heart the sound of your small name

  Pre-chorus

  Hush now, let the rocking carry all you feel let every worry fold and settle, hushed and still for something soft is waiting just to sing you through

  Chorus

  Kimberly, the dark leans down to keep you near nothing in this shadow ever brings you fear Close your eyes, the night has you, Kimberly, so still held inside the shade until the stars all spill

  Bridge

  No lantern needed where you lie the shade itself becomes your lullaby Every fold of wool remembers how to hold keeping you from every kind of cold

  Chorus

  Kimberly, the dark leans down to keep you near nothing in this shadow ever brings you fear Close your eyes, the night has you, Kimberly, so still held inside the shade until the stars all spill

  Outro

  The hood still curves above you, soft and low keeping watch the whole night through, however long you grow

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