Lullabies for Samantha

Verse 1

Thick white flakes are sticking softly to the windowpane tonight Streetlights glow so gently through the dark and quiet glass Everything outside has settled into calm and hushing light And here inside you're warm and safe, so let the evening pass

Pre-chorus

The snow falls slow like breathing, like the whole wide world exhales Close your eyes and feel the quiet wrapping soft around your bed While the night pulls up the blanket over rooftops and the vales

Chorus

Samantha, the dark is only kindness dressed in grey There's nothing in the shadows that could ever pull you far Samantha, my quiet one, the night will keep you safe till day Rest your head, you're held here gently underneath the smallest star

Verse 2

The glow beyond the window turns to amber, soft and slow It falls upon your blanket like a hand upon your hair Nothing in this house is waiting, nothing here will ever go You are wrapped in something steady, you are held and you are cared

Pre-chorus

The snow falls slow like breathing, like the whole wide world exhales Close your eyes and feel the quiet wrapping soft around your bed While the night pulls up the blanket over rooftops and the vales

Chorus

Samantha, the dark is only kindness dressed in grey There's nothing in the shadows that could ever pull you far Samantha, my quiet one, the night will keep you safe till day Rest your head, you're held here gently underneath the smallest star

Bridge

Sleep now, and let the hours turn without a single sound Nothing needs your waking, nothing needs you to be found

Chorus

Samantha, the dark is only kindness dressed in grey There's nothing in the shadows that could ever pull you far Samantha, my quiet one, the night will keep you safe till day Rest your head, you're held here gently underneath the smallest star

Outro

The flakes are settling softer now against the quiet pane Sleep on, you are so deeply loved, and morning waits again

Verse 1

A small yellow beam slips across the pillow folds tonight Finding you where you are curled up safe and warm and right The dark room holds its breath and settles soft around your head Nothing here will stir until the morning light instead

Pre-chorus

Close your eyes and let the hush come drifting slowly in Every worry of the day is far too small to win Let the quiet gather round you like a gentle held out hand

Chorus

Samantha, sleep is coming soft to carry you away Rest your head, there's nothing waiting louder than the day Samantha, let the light beside you fade to gold and grey In this small and steady dark, you're held here safe to stay

Verse 2

The folds above you dip and glow where that thin beam has crossed Nothing precious in this room was ever nearly lost Every breath you take tonight is counted soft and slow You are the warmest thing this quiet corner comes to know

Chorus

Samantha, sleep is coming soft to carry you away Rest your head, there's nothing waiting louder than the day Samantha, let the light beside you fade to gold and grey In this small and steady dark, you're held here safe to stay

Bridge

Sleep can hold you gentler than any word I say Let the small light watch you while the hours ease away

Chorus

Samantha, sleep is coming soft to carry you away Rest your head, there's nothing waiting louder than the day Samantha, let the light beside you fade to gold and grey In this small and steady dark, you're held here safe to stay

Outro

That small yellow beam will still be waiting when you wake Sleep now, love is all this quiet room will ever make

Verse 1

Somewhere below the lamp the shadows have gone soft and slow the rug lies still and warm on floorboards worn from years ago nothing tonight will hurry you or ask you to move on you are the calm this whole room has been waiting to hold close

Chorus

Samantha, sleep is coming gentle as a hand across your hair hush now, Samantha, there is nowhere safer than right here the dark outside can knock but it won't ever find its way in rest easy, Samantha, you are held and you are loved somewhere

Verse 2

Every colour in this room has faded down to something kind a small square of light is keeping watch on the floor behind you don't have to hold your eyes open one more minute now let the quiet in, it only ever meant to be your friend

Pre-chorus

Your breathing's getting slower than the turning of the night somewhere past the window all the stars are holding still and bright and sleep is standing near you now, so gentle, so

Chorus

Samantha, sleep is coming gentle as a hand across your hair hush now, Samantha, there is nowhere safer than right here the dark outside can knock but it won't ever find its way in rest easy, Samantha, you are held and you are loved somewhere

Bridge

Whatever the day asked of you, it can wait outside that door you have nothing left to carry, you don't have to keep the score

Chorus

Samantha, sleep is coming gentle as a hand across your hair hush now, Samantha, there is nowhere safer than right here the dark outside can knock but it won't ever find its way in rest easy, Samantha, you are held and you are loved somewhere

Outro

The lamp will keep its low light burning soft above the floor and you will still be loved when morning finds this room once more