Sleep Little One

Verse 1

Rock the chair till the floorboards creak

Moon sits heavy on the window pane

Your little hands are going slack

And I'm humming through the ache again

Mama's leaving in the morning light

Packing up a life I meant to keep

But right now I got you breathing soft

And the world can wait while you go to sleep

Pre-Chorus

So hush now baby

Daddy's got the dark

Chorus

Sleep little one

Sleep till the sun finds you kind

I'll be the lullaby

That stays behind

Sleep little one

Through the miles of this goodbye

The road's gonna take me

But I'm yours tonight

Verse 2

Your teddy stitched and one-eyed now

From the nights I held you through the fear

I'd trade a thousand lonely dawns

Just to keep you curling near

That whistle down the tracks is calling low

But nothing here is calling back to me

So I'll hum your favorite broken tune

Till you drift across that sleepy sea

Pre-Chorus

So hush now baby

Daddy's got the dark

Chorus

Sleep little one

Sleep till the sun finds you kind

I'll be the lullaby

That stays behind

Sleep little one

Through the miles of this goodbye

The road's gonna take me

But I'm yours tonight

Bridge

One day you'll ask why I went

And I'll say the world got ragged and rough

But your name still rings

Your name still rings

And that's the only truth I trust enough

Chorus

Sleep little one

Sleep till the sun finds you kind

I'll be the lullaby

That stays behind

Sleep little one

Through the miles of this goodbye

The road's gonna take me

But I'm yours tonight

Outro

Rocking low

Rocking low

Mm

Mm-hmm