Babies Falling Lyrics

Babies Falling lyrics

Where the workers stand in querulous rows awaiting dislocation 
I will be
there too
When you're cashing in your food stamps 
When you're sleeping
in a cattle train 
I'll be with you 
Pushing up against the ticket
counter window face against the glass 
Bleeding from the waist and kissing
to be chaste
It is said that those who will not rest have been cursed 
To
tramp like soldiers through the marshes 
Or that blessed are the ones who
leave the stage 
Like babies falling fast asleep 
So I twice am cursed
and twice am stuck 
Affixed to this corner of the earth.
That old river
keeps on rolling but the old man doesn't see it,
He just stands there with
his eyes closed 
Asking "where'd you go?" "where'd you
go?" 
So wherever you may sleep tonight, 
Be it bed or bedrock,
home, or open field: 
When you begin to yield, then, whatever you have taken
as your pillow, 
May it serve as mine as well.  
Underneath the weeping
willow I will wait for you forever, 
My eyes forever closed, asking
"where'd you go?" "where'd you go?"