Cradle And All (live)

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