Heavy and Warm

This one is for the stretch of night where you are already in bed and sleep has not shown up yet.

Most sleep advice hands you a task. Relax your shoulders. Slow your breath. Unclench your jaw. But trying is effort, and effort is the opposite of what you need at eleven at night.

So this one asks for nothing. It only describes what your body is already doing while you listen. The mattress taking your weight. The breath going out longer than it came in. The jaw coming apart without being told to.

It runs about three and a half minutes. Put it on repeat.

Heavy and Warm

The bed is taking the weightThe back of your head is heavyYour shoulders have found the sheetNothing is being held up

Heavy and warmSlow and lowHeavy and warmHeld

The teeth have come apartThe tongue has stopped pressingThe jaw is letting itself downThe eyes are done for the day

Heavy and warmSlow and lowHeavy and warmHeld

The breath has slowed on its ownNo one is driving itIt goes out longer than it came inIt knows how to do this

The room has gone quietThe dark is softNothing is waitingYou are already going

If you fall asleep before it ends, it worked.

A note on how this is made: I wrote the lyrics, the music and vocal were generated with Suno. The handpan is the only instrument, which is how every Healing Melodies track is built.