Track 2 of the EP The Quiet Hands · 2014
Walk Her Slowly Down the Aisle
“I wrote this the week my daughter got engaged, with the weight of a sleeping child still in my arms. It is the hardest one on the record to sing straight.”
neoclassical · neoclassical · wedding ballad · 3:56
Lyrics
I remember the weight of you small in my arms Asleep on my shoulder at night I remember the shoes that were always on wrong And the fierce little fists in the fight Now there's lace at the door and the organ is warm And the people have all turned to see And I'm holding your arm like a thing made of glass Though you're steadier far than me Walk her slowly down the aisle Let the music take its time Let me hold this moment longer Let me count each step like rhyme She was mine and now she's theirs She was always her own song Walk her slowly down the aisle It won't be long, it won't be long There's a boy at the end with a tremor of hands And a look that I know very well I once stood just there, I was just as afraid And I knew, as he knows, I would fall So I'll give him my daughter, I'll give him my trust I'll give him the whole of my heart And I'll sit in the front with a handkerchief ready And watch while the new years start Walk her slowly down the aisle Let the music take its time Let me hold this moment longer Let me count each step like rhyme She was mine and now she's theirs She was always her own song Walk her slowly down the aisle It won't be long, it won't be long Every road that she has taken Every door that she has closed Led her here, to light and flowers Where the world begins to grow Walk her slowly down the aisle Let the music take its time Let me hold this moment longer Let me count each step like rhyme She was mine and now she's theirs She was always her own song Walk her slowly down the aisle It won't be long, it won't be long Walk her slowly Slowly down the aisle