Lullabies for Nina

Verse 1

Lace is lifting softly where the window meets the dark Floorboards hold the quiet like a small and steady spark You are safe beneath the hush that settles on this room Wrapped in warmth while shadows learn to soften and to bloom

Pre-chorus

Somewhere past the curtain hangs a sliver of the moon Breathe it in and let the evening hum its gentle tune Close your eyes, my love, and drift where nothing comes too soon

Chorus

Nina, Nina, rest your head and let the night begin Sleep is calling soft and low to carry you within Every worry loosens here, dissolving like the light Nina, hold this calm and let it cradle you tonight

Verse 2

Cotton sheets are cool and light like clouds against your skin Nothing asks you to be more than simply drifting in You could rest here endlessly and never lose your place Held as gently as the breeze that moves this quiet space

Bridge

Let the hours grow slow and wide and soft around your name Nothing in this room will ask you to be anything

Chorus

Nina, Nina, rest your head and let the night begin Sleep is calling soft and low to carry you within Every worry loosens here, dissolving like the light Nina, hold this calm and let it cradle you tonight

Outro

Somewhere still the lace keeps breathing in and out so slow Sleep now, little Nina, into all the calm you know

Verse 1

The stripes above you soften as the daylight turns to grey and the carpet holds a glow that seems to breathe and sway somewhere past the ceiling all the noisy hours have gone you are wrapped in something warmer than the end of any day

Pre-chorus

Hush now, let your shoulders drop and let your eyelids fall the lamp will keep its little watch beside you on the wall and the dark can wait outside a while longer

Chorus

Nina, the shadows only mean the day is laying down close your hand around the quiet, let it be your crown nothing out there matters more than breathing slow and even Nina, you were always safe here, long before this town

Verse 2

The light along the floor is thin but steady where it lies it does not ask you anything, it only softly stays somewhere in that colour is a kind of promise kept for you that even fading things can hold you gently till the light replies

Bridge

Whatever moved today can rest now, folded small and still every worry you were carrying can slide off like a hill

Chorus

Nina, the shadows only mean the day is laying down close your hand around the quiet, let it be your crown nothing out there matters more than breathing slow and even Nina, you were always safe here, long before this town

Outro

Sleep now while the stripes above you soften into one long grey the lamp will keep its little watch until the morning finds its way

Verse 1

A far away lens turns its slow yellow light Sweeping over brick walls while the floorboards creak low It passes so gently and never comes too bright This whole quiet house keeps watch as you sleep, soft and slow

Pre-chorus

The beam swings around like a hand giving comfort Warm light on the ceiling, then gone, then returning Hush now, my darling, there's nothing to fear here

Chorus

Nina, the night wraps around you so kind Every soft shadow is only pretend You are the warmest thing found in this house Nina, my Nina, you're safe till the end

Verse 2

Somewhere a lighthouse keeps turning its slow golden eye While these old floorboards settle and sigh in the dark You don't need to wonder, you don't need to ask why You're held here so surely, so steady, so calm

Chorus

Nina, the night wraps around you so kind Every soft shadow is only pretend You are the warmest thing found in this house Nina, my Nina, you're safe till the end

Bridge

Let the light drift past and the walls breathe slow Nothing tonight needs your worry or care

Chorus

Nina, the night wraps around you so kind Every soft shadow is only pretend You are the warmest thing found in this house Nina, my Nina, you're safe till the end

Outro

The beam turns away now and leaves the walls dim Sleep on, little Nina, the night keeps you close