Fourteenth street, 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 yeah , 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 "Here'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 yeah, feel free to stare      Rockabye baby in the treetop   When the wind blows, the cradle will rock   When the bough breaks, 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, and 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 yeah, feel free to stare      Rockabye baby in the treetop   When the wind blows, the cradle will rock   And when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall   And down will come baby, cradle and all      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 yeah, feel free to stare      Feel free to listen yeah, feel free to stare   Feel free to listen yeah, feel free to stare   Feel free to listen yeah, feel free to stare