Difranco Ani Rockabye Lyrics

Rockabye Lyrics

tending the garden of noise
when I grow the traffic
and the
churchbells
and the neighborhood boys
singing to myself
as the
solitude sets in
in tune with the symphony
of south brooklyn
I
sing
rockabye, rockabye baby
rockabye, the baby that is me
rockabye,
rockabye baby
rockabye til I'm fast asleep
the tunnel is train
torn
the tracks are worn and sore
I can feel the rattle
riding up
through the floor
she jumped the turnstyle
he paid for his ride
I am
the echo in the station
where their footfalls collide
I left her at the
epicenter
we were trembling dutifully
I left him too
I left parts of
me
singing rockabye...
I said today I am leaving
in every sense of the
word
but I'm in love with your memory already
everything I've seen and
heard
and I will go singing
as the solitude sets in
in time with the
rythym
of everywhere I have been
it sounds like rockabye...