Lullabies for Violet

Verse 1

Lace at the window sways so soft it barely makes a sound and somewhere past the dark glass all the stars are gathering round you breathe so slow beside me, warm and still upon the bed nothing out there in the night can ever pull you down

Chorus

Violet, the whole wide dark is holding you so gently now hush now, Violet, let the quiet settle on your brow sleep is close and kind tonight, it wants you as you are Violet, you are safe here, no one loves you more somehow

Verse 2

Watch the curtain lift a little, then it settles back to rest just the same as how your breathing rises soft into your chest you don't need to hold on tightly, you can let your fingers go every corner of this room was built to keep you blessed

Pre-chorus

Somewhere far off something rustles, small and slow against the pane nothing here will ever hurt you, nothing here will cause you strain close your eyes now, little one, and drift into your name

Chorus

Violet, the whole wide dark is holding you so gently now hush now, Violet, let the quiet settle on your brow sleep is close and kind tonight, it wants you as you are Violet, you are safe here, no one loves you more somehow

Bridge

Even shadows move so kindly when they know that you're this loved hold that warmth against your chest like something softly wrapped and gloved

Chorus

Violet, the whole wide dark is holding you so gently now hush now, Violet, let the quiet settle on your brow sleep is close and kind tonight, it wants you as you are Violet, you are safe here, no one loves you more somehow

Outro

Lace still trembles faintly, but the night has gone so still sleep now, little Violet, exactly as you will

Verse 1

Something soft is moving in the ivy by the pane grey feathers folding quiet in the hush of falling rain they never make a sound as they settle in for night so let your eyes grow heavy, let them drift and lose the light

Pre-chorus

The glass is cool and steady, the whole room warm and still every small thing settling now, however it feels or will and you are held so closely, right here upon this sill

Chorus

Violet, the dark outside is gentle, never wild hush now in the quiet, you are treasured, you are mine every feather folding softly loves you all the same Violet, my Violet, there is nothing here but calm

Verse 2

Somewhere past the window something older than the night keeps its watch among the leaves and asks for nothing bright it only wants to rest there, wings against the stone just like you are resting now, so warm, so far from alone

Bridge

Let the ivy hold its shadows, let the glass hold back the cold you are wrapped in something steadier than anything untold

Chorus

Violet, the dark outside is gentle, never wild hush now in the quiet, you are treasured, you are mine every feather folding softly loves you all the same Violet, my Violet, there is nothing here but calm

Outro

The feathers settle deeper now, and so, my love, do you sleep on, the whole night through, beneath a calm and steady view

Verse 1

Somewhere below us the wicker is creaking soft on the floor calling you further from wherever the day has been easing you down into shadows that ask nothing more only to rest now, quiet and warm and unseen

Chorus

Violet, hush now, the dark is a friend tonight holding you gently the way that the old chair sways nobody's calling you back into any light Violet, you're held here through all of the quiet days

Verse 2

Somewhere the floorboard is learning the weight of the chair taking each rock of it slow, like a breath let go nothing untoward in the dark, only you resting there wrapped in the hush that the wicker was rocking so slow

Pre-chorus

Let your small hands go loose now, let your eyes grow still nothing in this room wants anything more from you only the creak, only sleep, only love's quiet will

Chorus

Violet, hush now, the dark is a friend tonight holding you gently the way that the old chair sways nobody's calling you back into any light Violet, you're held here through all of the quiet days

Bridge

Even the wicker is slowing its voice to a hush folding its creak into something as soft as your name

Chorus

Violet, hush now, the dark is a friend tonight holding you gently the way that the old chair sways nobody's calling you back into any light Violet, you're held here through all of the quiet days

Outro

Somewhere the chair has gone still on the darkened floor and you are the reason it never needed to move once more