Lullabies for Summer

Verse 1

The salt is drying soft upon the wooden sill tonight and far off water beats a slow and steady drum you're wrapped inside the quiet where the world has dimmed its light so let your tired little eyes grow heavy, let them come

Chorus

Summer, close your eyes now, let the dark be kind you are held here closer than the tide is to the shore Summer, nothing reaches you, no storm and no wind you are safe inside this room and safe in nothing more

Verse 2

The window holds the salt crust like a memory of waves while the grey and restless water stays a country far away nothing in that beating sea can touch you where you lay you are warmer than the driftwood, calmer than the spray

Pre-chorus

Hear how the far water hushes as it turns and calls again feel how the room stays gentle though the night outside is wide let every worry drift like foam and settle low, and then

Chorus

Summer, close your eyes now, let the dark be kind you are held here closer than the tide is to the shore Summer, nothing reaches you, no storm and no wind you are safe inside this room and safe in nothing more

Bridge

Let the salt keep drying slow upon the sill till dawn you were loved before the water learned to move at all

Chorus

Summer, close your eyes now, let the dark be kind you are held here closer than the tide is to the shore Summer, nothing reaches you, no storm and no wind you are safe inside this room and safe in nothing more

Outro

The salt will still be resting on the windowsill at light and you'll still be the treasure that I'm holding through the night

Verse 1

The candle leans slow as the wax rolls down its side and pools in the brass like a warm and patient tide I watch the flame settle, I watch your eyes grow deep this is the hour the whole wide world falls asleep

Pre-chorus

The house breathes quiet, the shadows start to sway hold on to my hand as the light begins to fray there's nothing to fear now, so let your worry go

Chorus

Summer, my Summer, the night is soft and slow Summer, you're steady as the candle's gentle glow warm as the wax that never learns to hurry you don't need to wander, you don't need to worry

Verse 2

The saucer holds the dripping like it holds a secret song something old and steady that has waited all along I'll keep the small flame burning till your breathing turns to rest holding what I love the most so close against my chest

Chorus

Summer, my Summer, the night is soft and slow Summer, you're steady as the candle's gentle glow warm as the wax that never learns to hurry you don't need to wander, you don't need to worry

Bridge

Every little flicker is a promise made in light that you are always cherished, every single night sleep now, little steady one, there's nothing you must do

Chorus

Summer, my Summer, the night is soft and slow Summer, you're steady as the candle's gentle glow warm as the wax that never learns to hurry you don't need to wander, you don't need to worry

Outro

The candle burns low now, its light grown soft and small and you are the warmest thing that I know at all

Verse 1

Outside the wet gravel is shining under the black hedge the whole street has gone quiet and settled at the edge nothing out there needs you, not tonight you can let the day go soft and lose its edge

Chorus

Summer, the dark has come to hold you, not to take you nobody and nothing in this house will ever shake you hush now, there is no hurry left at all close your eyes, my Summer, let the quiet make you

Verse 2

Somewhere past the glass the rain has stopped its falling only puddles left, dark and still and small you are warmer than the whole night put together safe here while the wide world does its crawling

Pre-chorus

Listen how the hush is spreading through the hedges how the shine on the path has softened at its edges this is the hour that folds you gently in

Chorus

Summer, the dark has come to hold you, not to take you nobody and nothing in this house will ever shake you hush now, there is no hurry left at all close your eyes, my Summer, let the quiet make you

Bridge

Sleep is only the night leaning close to say it loves you rain has washed the whole world clean just to prove you you were always the softest thing that gravel ever kept

Chorus

Summer, the dark has come to hold you, not to take you nobody and nothing in this house will ever shake you hush now, there is no hurry left at all close your eyes, my Summer, let the quiet make you

Outro

Somewhere the gravel still glistens under the black hedge and you are already dreaming, safe past its edge