Rockabye lyrics

Tending the garden of noise

Where I grow the traffic

And the churchbells

And the neighborhood boys

Singing to myself

As the solitude sets in

In tune to the symphony

Of South Brooklyn

I sing...

Rockabye, rockabye baby

Rockabye 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 turnstyle

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

Now I left him too

I left him parts of me

Singing...

Rockabye, rockabye baby

Rockabye baby – that is me

Rockabye, rockabye baby

Rockabye till I'm fast asleep

Rockabye, rockabye baby

Rockabye baby – that is me

Rockabye, rockabye baby

Rockabye till I'm fast asleep

So 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 rythym

of everywhere I have been

it sounds like..."

Rockabye, rockabye baby

Rockabye baby – that is me

Rockabye, rockabye baby

Rockabye till I'm fast asleep

Rockabye, rockabye baby

Rockabye baby – that is me

Rockabye, rockabye baby

Rockabye till I'm fast asleep

Rockabye, rockabye baby

Rockabye baby – that is me

Rockabye, rockabye baby

Rockabye till I'm fast asleep

Tending the garden of noise

Where I grow the traffic

And the churchbells

And the neighborhood boys

Singing to myself

As the solitude sets in

In tune to the symphony

Of South Brooklyn

• Artist:Ani DiFranco
• Album:Not So Soft (1991)