Wake - Big Country

Leave my kitchen

Leave my bedroom

Leave my fire

Take out all the gaming sets

That no one hired

Break up all the boats

Still tied up on the key

And the year is over now

And all the children kissed

When the bough breaks

And the cradle is down

I will wake and sing

Cover me with finest linen

Every morning

Bring me perfumes and tobacco

Every morning

Bathe my feet in Texan oils

And hold me down

And the year is over now

And all the children kissed

Strap the anchors to my neck

And bathe with me

When the bough breaks

And the cradle is down

I will wake and sing

Jump from wall to wall

On photographs of home

In the wheat field feeding beasts

Have lost their barn

Place them shaking on the table

Show them steel

And the year is over now

And all the children kissed

Store the relics

Mend the cracks

And hide the wheel

When the bough breaks

And the cradle is down

I will wake and sing

Dance on every wire here

Find little doll

As you danced in other beds

Before the fall

Take the wings from airplanes

And set them loose

The carpenter has shown his skill

And proved his use

And the year is over now

And all the children kissed

Strap the anchors to my neck

And bathe with me

When the bough breaks

And the cradle is down

I will wake and sing