Rockabye

Tending the garden of noise
 where i grow the traffic
 and the church bells
 and the neighborhood boys
 singing to myself
 when 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 till 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 turnstile
 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, rockabye baby
 rockabye, the baby that is me
 rockabye, rockabye baby
 rockabye till i'm fast asleep (repeats)
 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 rhythm
 of everywhere i have been
 it sounds like
 rockabye, rockabye baby
 rockabye, the baby that is me
 rockabye, rockabye baby
 rockabye till i'm fast asleep (repeats x3)
 tending the garden of noise
 where i grow the traffic
 and the church bells
 and the neighborhood boys
 singing to myself
 when the solitude sets in
 in tune with the symphony
 of south brooklyn.