Songs for Scarlett

Verse 1

Butter's melting slow in the pan Floorboards creak, you're up before me I lie here just to hear you move That sound is how I know I'm free

Pre-chorus

I've watched you in a hundred lights Never needed one more reason Just this kitchen, just this rise

Chorus

Scarlett, the pan is warm and waiting You hum a tune you don't quite know I'd know your step in any hallway Scarlett, it's you that steadies me so

Verse 2

You burn the toast and laugh it off Say the smoke alarm keeps us honest I'd eat it black if you're the one Who made it, sleeves rolled, hair a mess

Bridge

Some loves shout and some loves settle Ours moved in soft, like morning light You don't have to try to hold me You already do, every night

Chorus

Scarlett, the pan is warm and waiting You hum a tune you don't quite know I'd know your step in any hallway Scarlett, it's you that steadies me so

Outro

The butter's gone, the pan's gone cold Still I'd know your step in the hall

Verse 1

Steam is clearing slow above the glass A comb left lying where you set it down Nothing in this room is asking to be seen Still I stand here watching like it's cast

Pre-chorus

I could name a hundred smaller things But they all lead back to one And it's building now, it's building

Chorus

Scarlett, you're the calm inside the room Not a starlet, never needed the costume Just the soap left sitting on the sill Scarlett, I keep coming back to you

Verse 2

The mirror holds a shape it can't explain Just a warmth that hasn't left the air I don't need the picture to stay clear Some things you feel and don't have to name

Pre-chorus

I could name a hundred smaller things But they all lead back to one And it's building now, it's building

Chorus

Scarlett, you're the calm inside the room Not a starlet, never needed the costume Just the soap left sitting on the sill Scarlett, I keep coming back to you

Bridge

No garnet shines the way you do Nothing carved or built to be a scene Just a quiet kind of certain That I'd know anywhere, half asleep

Chorus

Scarlett, you're the calm inside the room Not a starlet, never needed the costume Just the soap left sitting on the sill Scarlett, I keep coming back to you

Outro

The glass will always find its clear again And I'll still be here, loving you the same

Verse 1

Left that ladder out in the yard Leaves came down and stuck to the wood Nothing round here ever looks hard When I'm standing where you once stood

Pre-chorus

Grey sky, nothing much to prove Just the quiet way we move Something's building, plain and true

Chorus

Scarlett, you're the steady kind of light Not loud, but you never fade I don't need the sky to be bright When you're near, I'm not afraid

Verse 2

Some leaves never do let go Cling on through the wind and rain I've watched how you carry it slow Never once making me explain

Chorus

Scarlett, you're the steady kind of light Not loud, but you never fade I don't need the sky to be bright When you're near, I'm not afraid

Bridge

No need for the sun to show its face You've always been enough of that Whatever grey fills up this place I'd stand right here, and that is that

Chorus

Scarlett, you're the steady kind of light Not loud, but you never fade I don't need the sky to be bright When you're near, I'm not afraid

Outro

Leaves still cling to that old wood You're still here, and that's enough

Verse 1

One small ember glows behind the iron bars tonight holding on to warmth when everything else turns down low you are curled up safe beneath the blanket and the light this whole house breathes slower just to see you settle so

Chorus

Scarlett, the fire is banked but it will not go out you are held here closer than the dark could ever get little Scarlett, sleep now, there is nothing left to doubt this quiet room is yours and every corner's calm and set

Verse 2

The rain is drawing soft lines down the darkened window pane and every drop just adds another hush upon the eaves you don't need to listen for a single thing again just rest inside the sound of how completely this house breathes

Pre-chorus

The last small coal is glowing low and steady in the grate it doesn't need to blaze to keep this whole room safe and warm and neither do you, love, as the hour grows late

Chorus

Scarlett, the fire is banked but it will not go out you are held here closer than the dark could ever get little Scarlett, sleep now, there is nothing left to doubt this quiet room is yours and every corner's calm and set

Bridge

Somewhere past the window the whole wide night is turning slow and nothing in it matters more than you asleep right here everything can wait until the morning starts to show

Chorus

Scarlett, the fire is banked but it will not go out you are held here closer than the dark could ever get little Scarlett, sleep now, there is nothing left to doubt this quiet room is yours and every corner's calm and set

Outro

One small ember still is glowing gently behind the bars and you are sleeping warm beneath a house full of soft stars

Verse 1

There's a far yellow light that sweeps the wall every twelve slow seconds It comes and it goes like a breath that the whole night takes Nothing out there can ever reach this room where you're resting You are held here so gently, long after the light forsakes

Pre-chorus

Close your small hands around the hush that's gathering near you Let the dark be a blanket and not a thing to fear Sleep is only the quiet way that I stay to hold you

Chorus

Scarlett, the night is only a room where you are precious Every slow flash of light is a promise coming round Nothing will touch you, Scarlett, while I am watching over you You are the softest thing that this whole dark night has found

Verse 2

The wall goes gold and then it goes back to whitewashed quiet You breathe in time with the sweep, though you don't know it yet Somewhere a light is turning, far off and never worried And you are turning softer into the sleep you'll get

Bridge

Let the far light keep its rhythm, we don't need to follow I will keep mine here beside you, slower than the tide

Chorus

Scarlett, the night is only a room where you are precious Every slow flash of light is a promise coming round Nothing will touch you, Scarlett, while I am watching over you You are the softest thing that this whole dark night has found

Outro

The light will keep on sweeping the wall long after you're sleeping And I'll be here still, watching it turn, keeping you safe

Verse 1

A thread of gold slips softly through the door and dust turns slow, so calm above the floor I watch it drift and think of how you rest so small and warm against a gentle chest

Chorus

Scarlett, the whole wide house is holding still for you the quiet settles soft the way it always will for you Sleep now, my darling, let the dark be kind Scarlett, there's nothing waiting but the morning light behind

Verse 2

Your breathing slows to match the fading light your small hand finds mine gently through the night No shadow here will ever climb this high I'll keep you closer than the passing sky

Pre-chorus

Hush now, the hours are turning soft and slow every worry melting into candle glow and here is where the quiet wants to go

Chorus

Scarlett, the whole wide house is holding still for you the quiet settles soft the way it always will for you Sleep now, my darling, let the dark be kind Scarlett, there's nothing waiting but the morning light behind

Bridge

Rest inside the hush that holds us near nothing in this house but love and here Let the night be gentle, let it stay I will keep the morning safe away

Chorus

Scarlett, the whole wide house is holding still for you the quiet settles soft the way it always will for you Sleep now, my darling, let the dark be kind Scarlett, there's nothing waiting but the morning light behind

Outro

The light beneath the door will keep its gentle place watching soft and steady over your sleeping face