Difranco Ani Cradle And All Lyrics

Cradle And All Lyrics

fourteenth street and the garbage swirls like a cyclone
three o'clock in the
afternoon and I am going home
F train is full of high school students
so
much shouting
so much laughter
last night's underwear in my back
pocket
sure sign of the morning after
take me home
take me home and
leave me there
think I'm going to cry, I don't know why
think I'm going
to sing myself a lullaby
feel free to listen
feel free to stare
I live
in New York New York the city that never shuts up
in the daylight everything
is so gory
you can hear snatches of stranger's sorry stories
and I moved
there from buffalo but that's nothing
the TRICO plant moved to
mexico
left my uncle standing out in the cold
said there's your last
paycheck have fun growing old
take me home
take me home and leave me
there
think I'm going to cry, I don't know why
think I'm going to sing
myself a lullaby
feel free to listen
feel free to stare
rockabye
baby
in the treetop
when the wind blows
cradle will rock
when the
bough breaks
the cradle will fall
down will come baby
cradle and
all
youth is beauty
money is beauty
hell, beauty is beauty
sometimes
it's the luck of the draw
it's the natural law
it's a
joke
it's a crime
I was bored
you were bored
it was a meeting of
the minds
now it's three in the afternoon and I can't leave too
soon
saying thank you, I had a nice time
take me home
take me home and
leave me there
think I'm going to cry, I don't know why
think I'm going to
sing myself a lullaby
feel free to listen
feel free to stare
maybe I'll
live my whole life
just getting by
maybe I'll be discovered
maybe I'll
be colonized
you could try to train me like a pet
you could try to teach
me to behave
But I'll tell you, if I haven't learned it yet
you
know,
I ain't gonna sit, I ain't gonna stay
take me home
take me home
and leave me there
think I'm going to cry, I don't know why
think I'm
going to sing myself a lullaby
feel free to listen
feel free to stare