Babies Falling Lyrics

The song Babies Falling is performed by Magnetic Fields in the album named The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees in the year 1995 .



Where the workers stand in querulous rows awaiting dislocation
I will be there too
When you're cashing in your food stamps
When you're sleeping in a cattle train
I'll be with you
Pushing up against the ticket counter window face against the gla*s
Bleeding from the waist and kissing to be chaste
It is said that those who will not rest have been cursed
To tramp like soldiers through the marshes
Or that blessed are the ones who leave the stage
Like babies falling fast asleep
So I twice am cursed and twice am stuck
Affixed to this corner of the earth.
That old river keeps on rolling but the old man doesn't see it,
He just stands there with his eyes closed
Asking "where'd you go?" "where'd you go?"
So wherever you may sleep tonight,
Be it bed or bedrock, home, or open field:
When you begin to yield, then, whatever you have taken as your pillow,
May it serve as mine as well.
Underneath the weeping willow I will wait for you forever,
My eyes forever closed, asking "where'd you go?" "where'd you go?"



Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees

Jan 1995

  1. When You Were My Baby
  2. The Saddest Story Ever Told
  3. Lovers From The Moon
  4. Candy
  5. Tokyo A Go-Go
  6. Summer Lies
  7. Old Orchard Beach
  8. Jeremy
  9. Dancing In Your Eyes
  10. Suddenly There Is A Tidal Wave
  11. (Untitled)
  12. Railroad Boy
  13. Smoke Signals
  14. You Love To Fail
  15. Kings
  16. Babies Falling
  17. Living In An Abandoned Firehouse With You
  18. Tar-Heel Boy
  19. Falling In Love With The Wolfboy
  20. Josephine
  21. 100,000 Fireflies

Babies Falling