Tomorrow Is Waiting. Nothing Is Being Lost.
There's a kind of tired that doesn't look like tired... right?
It looks like one more question. One more wiggle. One more "but Mum and dad, I just need to tell you one thing." It looks like a child so full of their own aliveness that their body genuinely cannot work out how to stop.
I have three kids. I know this tired very well.
The buzzing ones. The ones whose thoughts are still racing through dinner, through bath, through stories, through lights out. The ones who aren't being difficult - they're just so completely in love with being alive that sleep feels like missing out! I have honestly had one of my kids say "today was so fun, I don't want it to end."
For a long time I didn't have the words for what they were actually feeling. And then I wrote this song, and I did.
Your tummy's buzzing, your thoughts all race. You're smiling and wiggling, can't stay in place.
That's it. That's exactly it. Not naughty. Not overtired. Just completely, wholly, beautifully full.
The thing I wanted them to understand, on all the buzzing nights is that nothing is being lost by going to sleep.
That the joy doesn't disappear when they close their eyes. That tomorrow isn't something that happens without them. That all that excitement, all that happiness, all that good stuff their little body is holding onto so tightly - it will still be there.
Save it for the morning, Little Light. All that joy will still be bright.
We sing it now. On the hard nights and the easy ones. As a question sometimes; what are we saving for tomorrow? and they'll tell me. The game they want to finish. The person they want to see at school. The thing they thought of that made them laugh.
And then they sleep.
Not because I solved anything, I usually can't in that moment. Not because I found the right routine or followed the right steps. But because they felt heard in that buzzing feeling, and they trusted that tomorrow was already waiting to give it all back to them.
Tomorrow Is Waiting is on our Goodnight Little Lights album on Spotify and whereever you stream your music. It's quiet and soft, tomorrow's waiting for you - and I genuinely cannot tell you how many times I've heard it playing from a dark room and felt something settle in my own chest too.
Because honestly? Some nights I need it as much as they do.
The day is long. The feelings are big. And tomorrow is waiting for all of us.
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