Song

First Night In Your Own Room

First Night In Your Own Room folk · warm 2:18

Words

Verse 1

Tonight's the night you're sleeping in your own room
Which is four steps from your mother, but it's yours
There's a lamp shaped like a whale that stays on low
And a monitor that's crackling on a shelf
She is going to stand outside that door and listen
For longer than she's ever going to admit

Pre-Chorus

So this is from your godmother, on the night shift
Recorded in a break room, badly, with love

Chorus

First night in your own room, Jonah
The dark in here is friendly. I have checked
The door is open just as wide as you like it
And nobody is going anywhere at all

Verse 2

You are eight months old and you have views about the sea
About the cat, about peas, about the vacuum cleaner
You clap when anybody laughs, before you know the joke
Which is the most excellent way to live, I think
Keep that. Keep clapping before you get the joke
The world will try to take it off you. Don't let it

Chorus

First night in your own room, Jonah
The dark in here is friendly. I have checked
The door is open just as wide as you like it
And nobody is going anywhere at all

Bridge

There'll be nights that this song doesn't fix
Teeth, and dreams, and being three, and thunder
On those nights she will carry you downstairs
And it will be alright by half past four

Final Chorus

First night in your own room, Jonah
The dark in here is friendly. I have checked
The door is open just as wide as you like it
Sleep now. We are all still here in the morning

Outro

First night in your own room
Goodnight, Jonah

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