[00:00.00]Cradle and All - Ani Difranco
[00:17.73]Fourteenth street and the garbage swirls like a cyclone
[00:22.12]Three o'clock in the afternoon and I am going home
[00:26.11]F train is full of high school students
[00:27.67]So much shouting
[00:28.67]So much laughter
[00:29.42]Last night's underwear in my back pocket
[00:31.78]Sure sign of the morning after
[00:33.78]Take me home
[00:38.53]Take me home and leave me there
[00:43.02]Think I'm going to cry I don't know why
[00:44.90]Think I'm going to sing myself a lullaby
[00:46.96]Feel free to listen
[00:48.52]Feel free to stare
[00:59.19]I live in New York New York the city that never shuts up
[01:03.43]In the daylight everything is so gory
[01:05.36]You can hear snatches of stranger's sorry stories
[01:07.85]And I moved there from buffalo but that's nothing
[01:09.73]The TRICO plant moved to mexico
[01:10.85]Left my uncle standing out in the cold
[01:13.22]Said there's your last paycheck have fun growing old
[01:15.84]Take me home
[01:19.90]Take me home and leave me there
[01:24.01]Think I'm going to cry I don't know why
[01:25.82]Think I'm going to sing myself a lullaby
[01:27.38]Feel free to listen
[01:29.96]Feel free to stare
[01:32.08]Rockabye baby
[01:33.96]In the treetop
[01:36.07]When the wind blows
[01:38.01]Cradle will rock
[01:40.01]When the bough breaks
[01:42.06]The cradle will fall
[01:44.00]Down will come baby
[01:46.13]Cradle and all
[01:56.42]Youth is beauty
[01:56.99]Money is beauty
[01:58.23]Hell beauty is beauty sometimes
[01:59.11]It's the luck of the draw
[02:01.28]It's the natural law
[02:02.41]It's a joke
[02:03.47]It's a crime
[02:04.65]I was bored
[02:05.53]You were bored
[02:06.34]It was a meeting of the minds
[02:07.96]Now it's three in the afternoon and I can't leave too soon
[02:10.71]Saying thank you I had a nice time
[02:14.04]Take me home
[02:17.10]Take me home and leave me there
[02:21.15]Think I'm going to cry I don't know why
[02:22.89]Think I'm going to sing myself a lullaby
[02:25.08]Feel free to listen
[02:26.58]Feel free to stare
[02:29.15]Rockabye baby
[02:30.97]In the tree top
[02:32.96]When the wind blows
[02:34.96]Cradle will rock
[02:36.97]When the bough breaks
[02:38.85]Cradle will fall
[02:40.84]And down will come baby
[02:42.90]Cradle and all
[03:32.01]Maybe I'll live my whole life
[03:33.88]Just getting by
[03:35.62]Maybe I'll be discovered
[03:37.44]Maybe I'll be colonized
[03:39.19]You could try to train me like a pet
[03:41.20]You could try to teach me to behave
[03:43.07]But I'll tell you if I haven't learned it yet
[03:46.25]You know
[03:47.37]I ain't gonna sit I ain't gonna stay
[03:49.06]Take me home
[03:51.56]Take me home and leave me there
[03:55.48]Think I'm going to cry I don't know why
[03:57.23]Think I'm going to sing myself a lullaby
[03:59.17]Feel free to listen
[04:00.54]Feel free to stare
[04:02.94]Feel free to listen
[04:04.82]Feel free to stare
[04:06.94]Feel free to listen
[04:08.69]Feel free to stare