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Ani DiFranco ~ Cradle And All


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 more free 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

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