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fourteenth street and the garbage swirls like a cyclonethree o'clock in the afternoon and I am going home
F train is full of high school studentsso much shoutingso much laughterlast night's underwear in my back pocketsure sign of the morning aftertake me hometake me home and leave me therethink I'm going to cry, I don't know whythink I'm going to sing myself a lullabyfeel free to listenfeel free to stare
I live in New York New York the city that never shuts upin the daylight everything is so goryyou can hear snatches of stranger's sorry storiesand I moved there from buffalo but that's nothingthe TRICO plant moved to mexicoleft my uncle standing out in the coldsaid there's your last paycheck have fun growing oldtake me hometake me home and leave me therethink I'm going to cry, I don't know whythink I'm going to sing myself a lullabyfeel free to listenfeel free to starerockabye babyin the treetopwhen the wind blowscradle will rockwhen the bough breaksthe cradle will falldown will come babycradle and allyouth is beautymoney is beautyhell, beauty is beauty sometimesit's the luck of the drawit's the natural lawit's a jokeit's a crime
I was boredyou were boredit was a meeting of the mindsnow it's three in the afternoon and I can't leave too soonsaying thank you, I had a nice timetake me hometake me home and leave me therethink I'm going to cry, I don't know whythink I'm going to sing myself a lullabyfeel free to listenfeel free to staremaybe I'll live my whole lifejust getting bymaybe I'll be discoveredmaybe I'll be colonizedyou could try to train me like a petyou could try to teach me to behave
But I'll tell you, if I haven't learned it yetyou know,I ain't gonna sit, I ain't gonna staytake me hometake me home and leave me therethink I'm going to cry, I don't know whythink I'm going to sing myself a lullabyfeel free to listenfeel free to stare
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