Slow Down the Sun

Slow down the sun (slow it down)
let the evening stay.
Slow down the sun (slow it down)
don't take the day away.

Golden hour spilling on the kitchen wall,
nothing on the calendar, nothing at all.
Your feet in my lap and the ceiling fan
turning slow like the world understand.
The kettle gone quiet and the phone gone dark,
just the low bass humming like a heartbeat spark.
No place to be and no bell to ring —
just the melodica crying its lazy thing.

Let the shadows grow long on the bedroom floor,
let the evening lean against the open door.
when it's good you don't need to run —
so slow down, slow down the sun.

Slow down the sun, let it hang up high,
one more golden hour rolling by. (slow it down)
When the glass go gold, the day go calm —
hold the evening like a psalm.

Slow it down. (slow down the sun)
Slow it down. (the day ain't done)
Let the evening take its lazy time.

We spent all our young years running the clock,
chasing a finish line block after block.
Now the only race is the setting light,
holding the gold before the coming night.
Ice melting slow in the half-drunk glass,
dust in the sunbeam floating past.
No ambition louder than the ceiling fan —
just to stretch the evening long as we can.

when it's good you don't need to run —
so slow down, slow down the sun.

Slow down the sun, let it hang up high,
one more golden hour rolling by. (slow it down)
When the glass go gold, the day go calm —
hold the evening like a psalm.

The whole world screaming go, go, go,
but the best of living is the taking slow.
So I close the laptop and I lose the phone
and I watch the gold melt down — not alone.

(let it hang, let it hang)
One more hour, one more gold, (slow)
one more evening to hold.

Slow down the sun, let it hang up high,
one more golden hour rolling by. (slow it down)
Let the inbox burn and the deadline wait —
slow down the sun, it ain't late.

The gold going down easy now —
one more evening to hold.
don't take the day away.