Track 8 of the album Window Hours · 2017
Mom's Slow Steps, Hand on the Rail
by Odalys Fern
“My mother takes the stairs more slowly now, and I walk beside her without saying a word. It's the song I find hardest to sing.”
ambient · tender ambient · choral folk · 3:34
Lyrics
You take the stairs a little slower now I walk beside you, I don't say a thing The rail is cool beneath your hand And I remember how you held my hand Take your time, I'm right here Take your time, I'm right here You carried me, now I will wait Take your time, I'm right here Your kitchen smells the same as before The kettle sings the way it always did Your photographs are on the wall I was small in every one of them Take your time, I'm right here Take your time, I'm right here You carried me, now I will wait Take your time, I'm right here The years went by so quietly You taught me how to walk Now I will walk with you Slow and soft and sure Take your time, I'm right here Take your time, I'm right here You carried me, now I will wait Take your time, I'm right here Hand on the rail, hand in mine Take your time