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Cradle and All 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 strangers' 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 here'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 tree top
When the wind blows
Cradle will rock
When the bough breaks
Cradle will fall
And 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
And 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
Rockabye baby
In the tree top
When the wind blows
The cradle will rock
When the bough breaks
The cradle will fall
And down will come baby
Cradle and all
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
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
(x3)
Feel free to listen, yeah
Feel free to stare
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 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
The city that never shuts up
In the daylight everything is so gory
You can hear snatches of strangers' 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 here's your last paycheck
Have fun growing old
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
In the tree top
When the wind blows
Cradle will rock
When the bough breaks
Cradle will fall
And down will come baby
Cradle and all
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
And 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 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
In the tree top
When the wind blows
The cradle will rock
When the bough breaks
The cradle will fall
And down will come baby
Cradle and all
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
I ain't gonna sit
I ain't gonna stay
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, yeah
Feel free to stare
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"think i'm going to sing myself a lullaby feel free to listen feel free to stare" when the world does not matter only the emotions that boil inside of you, and its enough of a task to get by
last night's underwear in my back pocket sure sign of the morning after
I fucking love her.
last night's underwear in my back pocket sure sign of the morning after
I fucking love her.
the morning after the night before. 'thank you i ahd a nice time' nothing more to say.
i am in love with this song, and this woman.
Have you ever had the feeling where you feel like you're going to cry, and you don't even care at that point whos looking?, she seems like in this song that shes at the point of mental combustion, and just needs to let it all out. She talks about her past, and where she moved and where shes from, she has such a rich history behind her, and has been so many places. At the point in the song "Feel free to listen, feel free to stare", she is at the point where she doesn't care what anyone thinks anymore, and after talks about beauty, and how beauty is just a definition. Ani DiFranco is fucking amazing.
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
hell yes, love these words, love this song, love ani.
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
I fuckin love this song and her!!
i want to say it too now!!
I fucking love ani difranco
woo that feels good!