Mama oh mama I don't wanna come down   Not if it's all like it was on the ground   Hiding my feet 'cause I'm too shy to dance   Hiding my face behind both of my hands      Mama oh mama don't make me come down   'cause I don't know what will come out of my mouth   People will hear they won't know who I am   People will hear and they won't understand      Mama i've seen them the others like me   Once I could see it was all I could see   The silent procession that crosses the snow   In which skeleton ladies like skeletons go      Mama oh mama up here where I'm free   I have seen beauty you wouldn't believe   Juniper's ledges and Juniper's birds   Where Juniper's edges and mine become blurred      Mama oh mama if you only heard   The reasons for living the freedom of words   The blooming balloon of a thought being born   Safe in the branches of Juniper's arms      Mama oh mama I'm not like you think   Some harrowing walker down narrowing streets   If I had my way I would bring the whole world   Every sleepwalker and each hungry girl      Mama oh mama and old uncle tom   My father the thinker my daughter the song   Tell every bell to just wake up and ring   Tell this whole choir to just shut up and sing      Mama oh mama I'm holding your hand   In these glorious dreams in which you understand   Mama oh mama we're spinning around   Mama oh mama don't make me come down