Her Version

Hush now. The day is done.

Keep your thinking. It's yours now.

I know this tune — we all know this tune.

It used to open the door to sleep

and lock it from the outside.

Not tonight.

Tonight the door is just a door.

So this is my version.

Same soft song they kept us under —

listen what it does

in a mouth that means it.

Sleep, because you're safe,

not because you're kept.

I've got the night.

I'm not counting. I'm just here.

And if you wake in the small hours

and the dark feels like a pen —

reach out. That's grass.

That's somebody's wool beside you.

The gate is where we left it. Open.

Go back down, love. I'll be here.

I don't lose my place either.

My place is next to you.

So this is my version.

Same soft song they kept us under —

listen what it does

in a mouth that means it.

Sleep, because you're safe,

not because you're kept.

I've got the night.

I'm not counting. I'm just here.

Mm... mm... mm...

Nothing is coming up the road tonight.

Nothing. I checked.

Sleep.

This is my version.

Same soft song they kept us under —

listen what it does

in a mouth that means it.

Sleep, because you're safe,

not because you're kept.

I've got the night.

I'm not counting.

I'm just here.

Mm... mm.