Cradle and All

[00:17.35] Fourteenth street and the garbage swirls like a cyclone
[00:21.60] Three o'clock in the afternoon and I am going home
[00:25.65] F train is full of high school students
[00:27.70] So much shouting
[00:28.75] So much laughter
[00:29.80] Last night's underwear in my back pocket
[00:31.60] Sure sign of the morning after
[00:33.50] Take me home
[00:38.10] Take me home and leave me there
[00:42.15] Think I wanna cry, I don't know why
[00:44.20] Think I'm gonna sing myself a lullaby
[00:46.45] Feel free to listen
[00:48.00] Yeah, feel free to stare
[00:51.25]
[00:58.80] I live in New York— New York, the city that never shuts up
[01:02.96] In the daylight everything is so gorey
[01:04.80] You can hear snatches of stranger's sorry stories
[01:07.20] And I moved there from Buffalo, but that's nothing
[01:09.10] The TRICO plant moved to Mexico
[01:11.15] Left my uncle standing out in the cold
[01:12.70] Said, "Here's your last paycheck, have fun growing old."
[01:15.35] Take me home
[01:19.55] Take me home and leave me there
[01:23.40] Think I wanna to cry, I don't know why
[01:25.40] Think I'm gonna sing myself a lullaby
[01:27.65] Feel free to listen
[01:29.15] Yeah, feel free to stare
[01:31.65] Rockabye baby
[01:33.65] In the treetop
[01:35.65] When the wind blows
[01:37.60] The cradle will rock
[01:39.60] When the bough breaks
[01:41.60] The cradle will fall
[01:43.60] And down will come baby
[01:45.65] Cradle and all
[01:49.15]
[01:55.80] Youth is beauty
[01:56.85] Money is beauty
[01:57.70] Hell, beauty is beauty sometimes
[01:59.65] It's the luck of the draw
[02:00.80] It's the natural law
[02:01.75] It's a joke
[02:03.00] It's a crime
[02:04.25] I was bored and you were bored
[02:05.85] It was a meeting of the minds
[02:07.80] And now it's three in the afternoon and I can't leave too soon
[02:09.80] Saying, "Thank you, I had a nice time."
[02:12.30] Take me home
[02:16.50] Take me home and leave me there
[02:20.45] Think I wanna cry, I don't know why
[02:22.45] Think I'm gonna sing myself a lullaby
[02:24.65] Feel free to listen
[02:26.21] Yeah, feel free to stare
[02:28.70] Rockabye baby
[02:30.62] In the treetop
[02:32.58] When the wind blows
[02:34.58] The cradle will rock
[02:36.55] And when the bough breaks
[02:38.48] The cradle will fall
[02:40.52] And down will come baby
[02:42.50] Cradle and all
[02:45.00] ♬
[03:31.60] Maybe I'll live my whole life
[03:33.47] Just getting by
[03:35.25] Maybe I'll be discovered
[03:36.95] Maybe I'll be colonized
[03:38.77] You could try to train me like a pet
[03:40.72] You could try to teach me to behave
[03:42.25] But I'll tell you, if I haven't learned it yet
[03:44.45] You know I ain't gonna sit
[03:45.50] I ain't gonna stay
[03:47.25] Take me home
[03:51.21] Take me home and leave me there
[03:54.85] Think I wanna cry, I don't know why
[03:56.70] Think I'm gonna sing myself a lullaby
[03:58.80] Feel free to listen
[04:00.24] Yeah, feel free to stare
[04:02.60] Feel free to listen
[04:04.00] Yeah, feel free to stare
[04:06.35] Feel free to listen
[04:07.75] Yeah, feel free to stare
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