Rockabye - Ani DiFranco

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