[In the style of Elbow meets Bon Iver and Phoebe Bridgers] [whispered] Like Tangled String and Wishes **[Verse 1 - quiet, fingerpicked]** Sunlight falls on the roof of our house. * (harmony: soft hum — mmm... )* A small shadow crawls up the wall and says hello. A butterfly, a comma, a question mark — the fresh air flutters by. **[Pre-Chorus - harmonies enter, voiceless]** Ohhh — * (voiceless harmony: ahh ahh)* The world of wonder — **[Chorus - open, warm]** A dandelion, a tiny white star explodes in the grass. Oh, how the wind laughs! And the trees dance, * (harmony: ooo — la la la — ooo)* And the clouds are fluffy rabbits hopping to nowhere in particular. We are all a little bit of everything. **[Verse 2 - closer, intimate]** The moon, a crescent moon, will soon be whole again. * (harmony: hmm hmm)* And I, a dreamer, will be sleeping in the garden of my own wild mind. Your heart is the tiny red leaf unfurling in the rain, * (harmony: breath — ahh, unfurling — ahh)* And I am the sun that chases the clouds away to kiss your wet petals. **[Chorus 2 - fuller, with layered harmonies]** We are two awkward robins building a nest of tangled string and wishes. * (harmony: ooo — tangled string and wishes — ooo)* You speak of old books and forgotten songs, and I answer in the silent hum of crickets on a mid-summer night. * (harmony: voiceless cricket hum — shhh shh shh — mmm)* **[Bridge - almost whispered, harmonies like wind]** My dearest, if I could give you the moon, I would steal it from the sky and hang it in your hair like a silver coin. * (harmony: ooo — silver coin — ooo)* But instead I'll offer you this — **[Final Chorus - slow, bare]** My callused hands to embrace you, and a love that feels like a garden growing just for us. * (harmony: layered voiceless — ahh... growing just for us... ahh...)* **[Outro - fade]** * (all voices voiceless: mmm — ahh — ooo —)* Sunlight falls on the roof of our house.
