Songs for Scott

Verse 1

Rain is tapping soft against the glass Two coats warming on the radiator Nowhere else I'd rather be tonight You make the small room feel like a lot

Pre-chorus

I stopped checking the clock on the wall Stopped counting all the minutes gone Something in me leans toward you now

Chorus

Scott, you're the warmest thing I know Steady as the heat below Every quiet hour finds its spot When I'm beside you, Scott

Verse 2

You hang your coat right next to mine Sleeves still touching when the porch light's off I like the shape we make together Simple as a coin flip, never a shot

Bridge

No grand words, no need to plan them Just this room and rain that won't stop You're the one thing I'm sure of Even when the whole world's not

Chorus

Scott, you're the warmest thing I know Steady as the heat below Every quiet hour finds its spot When I'm beside you, Scott

Outro

Rain still taps against the glass Two coats hanging, keeping their spot

Verse 1

Smoke goes up through the cold, cold air Off the twigs we couldn't light at first You laugh and warm your hands right there Somehow you turned my worst to best

Pre-chorus

Pass the mug, let it go round Nothing here but steam and ground I feel something building, waiting on the sound

Chorus

Scott, you're the warmth in this whole cold lot Steady hands, you hold what I've got Every place feels right where you stand, Scott You're the fire when the air turns hot

Verse 2

Years could pass or just this one night Doesn't matter how long we've got Your hands stay open, your grip stays tight You never once let go of the plot

Bridge

No need for more than this small light No need to rush, no need to run Just you, this smoke, this quiet fight Against the cold till the warmth has won

Chorus

Scott, you're the warmth in this whole cold lot Steady hands, you hold what I've got Every place feels right where you stand, Scott You're the fire when the air turns hot

Outro

Smoke still rises, thin and slow You're the warm I carry home

Verse 1

White sheets pinned between two walls Snapping soft in evening air Something holds when everything pulls You are the peg that keeps it there

Pre-chorus

I have watched things come undone Watched the wind take what it wants But you stay when the wild wind runs

Chorus

Scott, you're the one thing steady Not a passing lot Every knot that I can lean on Scott, you hold the spot

Verse 2

Mornings come and lines get bare Washing taken, walls stand plain But you are always somewhere near Like sun that follows after rain

Bridge

Some loves fade the way cloth fades Some grow thin with every wash But you don't fade, you don't forget me You're the knot that just won't slip

Chorus

Scott, you're the one thing steady Not a passing lot Every knot that I can lean on Scott, you hold the spot

Outro

The wind still moves the wire and sheet But you're the still point that I meet

Verse 1

The lamp throws down a soft and hazy yellow glow tonight and little specks of dust go drifting slowly through the light a small moth circles round and round the warm and gentle bulb while you lie safe and heavy, wrapped in blankets soft and dull

Pre-chorus

Watch how the quiet dust just floats and never has to fall hear how the house breathes slow around these old and steady walls and feel how nothing in this room is asking you for more

Chorus

Scott, the light is low and every worry finds its floor rest here where the moth keeps turning gently by the door nothing in this house will ever let you come to harm Scott, you are the warmest thing inside this quiet calm

Verse 2

The moth will find its circle and it never strays too wide content to stay so near the only light it knows at night and you can learn from how it trusts the glow above your head there's nowhere safer in the world than right here in this bed

Chorus

Scott, the light is low and every worry finds its floor rest here where the moth keeps turning gently by the door nothing in this house will ever let you come to harm Scott, you are the warmest thing inside this quiet calm

Bridge

Let your breathing slow to match the turning of the moth let the golden dust keep drifting soft as it falls

Chorus

Scott, the light is low and every worry finds its floor rest here where the moth keeps turning gently by the door nothing in this house will ever let you come to harm Scott, you are the warmest thing inside this quiet calm

Outro

The dust will settle soon and so will you, my dear one sleep now beneath the light where nothing bad has ever come

Verse 1

Somewhere the brass weights are sinking low behind the glass letting the whole tired house breathe out slow and last the floorboard down the hall gives one more little creak you're curled up warm where the quiet shadows pass

Chorus

Scott, the night has folded soft around your bed every worry of the day has quietly fled hold onto nothing, just the hush upon this spot sleep now, Scott, with my hand upon your head

Verse 2

Somewhere a small brass weight is dropping through the dark turning slow as the last light starts to blur you are held here safer than a candle in a jar nothing in this house will ever wake or stir

Pre-chorus

Listen how the clock has learned to whisper, not to chime feel how the blankets pull you gently out of time something in this stillness is reaching out for you

Chorus

Scott, the night has folded soft around your bed every worry of the day has quietly fled hold onto nothing, just the hush upon this spot sleep now, Scott, with my hand upon your head

Bridge

Rest here where the dark is only kind let your small breath slow to match the chime nothing far away can find you now you are the safest thing I've ever signed

Chorus

Scott, the night has folded soft around your bed every worry of the day has quietly fled hold onto nothing, just the hush upon this spot sleep now, Scott, with my hand upon your head

Outro

Somewhere the brass weights have settled soft and still the whole house sleeps now, exactly as it will

Verse 1

A slow white light goes turning above the narrow cot It brushes the whitewashed wall and finds the quiet spot Nothing out there can reach you, nothing stirs and nothing ought You are held so gently here, right here where you are, Scott

Chorus

Scott, the night is soft around you, and it means you no harm Sleep is only another way of holding you warm Scott, my love will circle round you like that slow turning light Nothing in this whole wide dark can touch you tonight

Verse 2

The beam comes round so slowly, like a hand that checks you're near It touches every corner and it leaves no room for fear Your breathing settles softer than a story or a thought This is the calmest hour, and it belongs to you, Scott

Pre-chorus

Close your eyes and let the turning light do all the keeping Every worry of the day is folding into sleeping There is nowhere safer than the quiet that you're sinking into

Chorus

Scott, the night is soft around you, and it means you no harm Sleep is only another way of holding you warm Scott, my love will circle round you like that slow turning light Nothing in this whole wide dark can touch you tonight

Bridge

Rest now, the walls are only holding warmth for you to keep Every slow round of the light is rocking you toward sleep

Chorus

Scott, the night is soft around you, and it means you no harm Sleep is only another way of holding you warm Scott, my love will circle round you like that slow turning light Nothing in this whole wide dark can touch you tonight

Outro

The light will still be turning long after you have gone to sleep And I'll be right beside you, yours to hold and yours to keep