Lyrics: Rockabye

Tending the garden of noise
Where I grow the traffic
And the church bells
And the neighbourhood 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 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
Then I left him too
I left parts of me
Singing rockabye…

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’ve been
It sounds like rockabye…