Sleep Like a Child

[[INTRO INSTRUMENTAL: Solo guitar establishes the harmonic and tonal foundation]] [[VERSE 1: Sparse instrumentation with soft vocals.]] Let’s love each other now, Like there’s no need for regret. Give me your love in the here and now, Like you‘re about to forget (about to forget, about to forget) [[VERSE 2: Similar to Verse 1 but slightly fuller]] Hold me down, hold me down The night is descending (descending like a chanted prayer) Move me now, move me now As if the world were ending. [[PRE-CHORUS INSTRUMENTAL: quiet harmonic and textural layering.]] [[CHORUS: Full band enters, expanding dynamically.]] After the moon ascends, I will sleep like a child. I’ll sleep, sleep, sleep like a child Only with you, do I sleep like a child No tossing or turning Never stirring Sleeping, sleeping, sleeping Like a child feeling protected Like a child no longer rejected [[VERSE 3: Driving rhythm with more restrained vocal phrasing]] See, only you, only you, only you can stir me With the quiet, the quiet, the quiet of your lips Your soul whispers me awake Like the quiet gentle end of a lunar eclipse [[PRE-CHORUS INSTRUMENTAL: quiet harmonic and textural layering.]] [[CHORUS: Repeats with increased intensity.]] After the moon ascends, I will sleep like a child. I’ll sleep, sleep, sleep like a child Only with you, do I sleep like a child No tossing or turning Never stirring Sleeping, sleeping, sleeping Like a child feeling protected Like a child no longer rejected [[BRIDGE: Focus on guitar textures and sustained chords.]] Here right now My heart stops aching Here right now I can't see a hell. Here right now Could there be a heaven? Here right now. You've cast a spell [[PRE-CHORUS INSTRUMENTAL: quiet harmonic and textural layering.]] [[FINAL CHORUS: Repeated with heightened emotion and layered instrumentation]] After the moon ascends, I will sleep like a child. I’ll sleep, sleep, sleep like a child Only with you, do I sleep like a child No tossing or turning Never stirring, never stirring Sleeping, sleeping, sleeping Like a child feeling protected Like a child no longer rejected [[OUTRO: Gradual fade, maintaining the same chord progression and atmosphere.]] You must've cast a spell I will sleep I will sleep You must've cast a spell You must've cast a spell I will sleep, sleep, sleep like a child Only with you, do I sleep like a child Only with you, do I sleep like a child I will sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep like a child