Chirp in the Dark

Verse 1

Windows open wide tonight

The porch light hums a low gold prayer

Crickets tuning up their strings

Somewhere underneath the stair

I sit still and let them play

A chorus made of miles of field

Each one staking out its name

A song that nobody can steal

Pre-Chorus

And I don't know their names at all

But I know their little call

Chorus

Chirp chirp in the dark

Tiny fiddlers with a spark

Singing summer's lullaby

One small note against the sky

Chirp chirp while I stay

Counting minutes till the day

When the sun pulls back the heat

And the quiet takes a seat

Verse 2

Mama said the heat brings them

The humid nights and honeyed grass

One old sound when day is done

I hear it every time I pass

They don't stop for anyone

They play till morning spills its blue

Little engines of the dusk

They do what they were born to do

Pre-Chorus

And I don't know their names at all

But I know their little call

Chorus

Chirp chirp in the dark

Tiny fiddlers with a spark

Singing summer's lullaby

One small note against the sky

Chirp chirp while I stay

Counting minutes till the day

When the sun pulls back the heat

And the quiet takes a seat

Bridge

If the night got struck dumb cold

I think I'd miss that golden sound

Every season has its song

This one just spins the world around

Chorus

Chirp chirp in the dark

Tiny fiddlers with a spark

Singing summer's lullaby

One small note against the sky

Chirp chirp while I stay

Counting minutes till the day