Songs for Sylvia

Verse 1

Somewhere a heavy brass lens is turning slow in its glass room and every quiet sweep it makes is settling into the gloom warm light moving gently, round and round again you are held inside its circle, safe from any harm

Pre-chorus

Watch how the beam comes back to find you, patient as a tide nothing out there in the dark can slip past what waits beside close your eyes now, let the turning carry you

Chorus

Sylvia, the light comes round to keep you soft as breathing, it will never leave you through militia of stars it climbs so quiet and so slow nobody sleeps as loved as you, Sylvia, I promise you

Verse 2

Far off the glass room hums with its slow and steady turning the whole wide night is calm because that beam keeps on returning you don't need to know the trivia of how it works or why only that it circles gently, never leaving you behind

Pre-chorus

Watch how the beam comes back to find you, patient as a tide nothing out there in the dark can slip past what waits beside close your eyes now, let the turning carry you

Chorus

Sylvia, the light comes round to keep you soft as breathing, it will never leave you through militia of stars it climbs so quiet and so slow nobody sleeps as loved as you, Sylvia, I promise you

Bridge

Rest now, let the slow wheel spin above the sleeping sea nothing has to hurry when you're wrapped this safe in me

Chorus

Sylvia, the light comes round to keep you soft as breathing, it will never leave you through militia of stars it climbs so quiet and so slow nobody sleeps as loved as you, Sylvia, I promise you

Outro

Somewhere that lens still turns inside its round glass room and you are sleeping softly, held safe within its glow

Verse 1

Somewhere behind the door a small green light is glowing quiet as breath, so soft it barely needs knowing it watches over shadows while the whole house rests and I am watching too, with you against my chest

Pre-chorus

Nothing tonight can reach you here, nothing can call you back the dark outside has softened, and the wind has lost its track so let your fingers loosen and let your worries slack

Chorus

Sylvia, sleep is a warm room only you can enter hold onto nothing, just drift toward the centre the whole wide night is folding gently round your name Sylvia, you are loved the same, you are always loved the same

Verse 2

Once I watched that little light for hours while you were small learning your breathing, learning the hush before it falls and even now I listen for that same slow tide knowing you are safe and knowing I am close beside

Bridge

Every glow gets dimmer as the good night settles in let it dim around you, let the stillness begin

Chorus

Sylvia, sleep is a warm room only you can enter hold onto nothing, just drift toward the centre the whole wide night is folding gently round your name Sylvia, you are loved the same, you are always loved the same

Outro

That small green light will still be glowing when you wake and I'll still be here, keeping watch for your sake

Verse 1

Rain traces slow little rivers down the window pane tonight You watch them fall while resting soft against my arm Outside the dark is endless but you're held here safe and tight Nothing can reach you now, my love, nothing brings you harm

Pre-chorus

Your breath is warming circles on the cold and misted glass Sleep is coming closer now, so quiet and so slow Close your eyes and let this gentle moment gently pass

Chorus

Sylvia, the night is only kind to you Every mile we travel home is wrapped in gold and blue Sylvia, the world can wait till morning comes There's nowhere safer than this warmth where you belong

Verse 2

Streetlights blur and stretch like ribbons drifting past your face You're heavy now with sleep, your small hand loosely curled Nothing in this whole wide night could ever take your place You are the softest, safest corner of my world

Pre-chorus

Your breath is warming circles on the cold and misted glass Sleep is coming closer now, so quiet and so slow Close your eyes and let this gentle moment gently pass

Chorus

Sylvia, the night is only kind to you Every mile we travel home is wrapped in gold and blue Sylvia, the world can wait till morning comes There's nowhere safer than this warmth where you belong

Bridge

Let the hum of the engine be the only sound you keep Let it carry you gently, gently down to sleep

Chorus

Sylvia, the night is only kind to you Every mile we travel home is wrapped in gold and blue Sylvia, the world can wait till morning comes There's nowhere safer than this warmth where you belong

Outro

The glass has cleared where your small hand once lay so warm Sleep now, love, you have carried us safely through the storm