Starling Arrow - Oh Darlin (Audio) - ft. Leah Song, Chloe Smith, Tina Malia, Ayla Nereo, Marya Stark

Oh Darlin'
From the upcoming album 'Cradle'

Written and Composed by Leah Song
Produced by Tina Malia
Performed by Starling Arrow
(Leah Song and Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia, Tina Malia, Marya Stark, and Ayla Nereo)

Lyrics:

Oh darlin’
Please just go to bed
There is so much
Waiting for your dear resting head

You can harvest
Hawthorn as you go
Make your promise
Take your dreamscape
And let down your load

You are waiting
For sleep to come around
But its not coming
Slow arrival to the ground

There are wild flowers
Asters in your dreams
You’ll miss nothing
Awake is just not as good as it seems

Ooooos...

All us grownups
We’ll stumble about the world
And as we wander
You’ll nest away and rest dear little girl

Oh darlin
Please just go to bed
There is so much
Waiting for your dear resting head

You can harvest
Hawthorn as you go
Take your dreamscape
And let down your load

Song Story:

Written by Leah Song of Rising Appalachia, this is a real life lullaby, for the real life parent in the final battles of sleep deprivation. One written about the moment when you have tried EVERYTHING to just get your child to GO TO SLEEP!! Part playful, part honest attempt to pull that final transition to rest…drifting away in harmonics and by the celebratory end, swooping us all away to an actual dreamscape.