fourteenth street and the garbage swirls like a cyclone
  three o'clock in the afternoon and I am going home
  F train is full of high school students
  so much shouting
  so much laughter
  last night's underwear in my back pocket
  sure sign of the morning after
    take me home
  take me home and leave me there
  think I'm going to cry, I don't know why
  think I'm going to sing myself a lullaby
  feel free to listen
  feel free to stare
    I live in New York New York the city that never shuts up
  in the daylight everything is so gory
  you can hear snatches of stranger's sorry stories
  and I moved there from buffalo but that's nothing
  the TRICO plant moved to mexico
  left my uncle standing out in the cold
  said there's your last paycheck have fun growing old
    take me home
  take me home and leave me there
  think I'm going to cry, I don't know why
  think I'm going to sing myself a lullaby
  feel free to listen
  feel free to stare
  rockabye baby
  in the treetop
  when the wind blows
  cradle will rock
  when the bough breaks
  the cradle will fall
  down will come baby
  cradle and all
    youth is beauty
  money is beauty
  hell, beauty is beauty sometimes
  it's the luck of the draw
  it's the natural law
  it's a joke
  it's a crime
  I was bored
  you were bored
  it was a meeting of the minds
  now it's three in the afternoon and I can't leave too soon
  saying thank you, I had a nice time
    take me home
  take me home and leave me there
  think I'm going to cry, I don't know why
  think I'm going to sing myself a lullaby
  feel free to listen
  feel free to stare
    maybe I'll live my whole life
  just getting by
  maybe I'll be discovered
  maybe I'll be colonized
  you could try to train me like a pet
  you could try to teach me to behave
  But I'll tell you, if I haven't learned it yet
  you know,
  I ain't gonna sit, I ain't gonna stay
    take me home
  take me home and leave me there
  think I'm going to cry, I don't know why
  think I'm going to sing myself a lullaby
  feel free to listen
  feel free to stare