Well, I've sung out one more evening   Yes I'm wrung out, feeling beat   And I walk on out the door once more   To an empty city street      A good guitar will serve you well   When you're living in the lights   But it's never going to warm you   In the middle of the night      And so I come and go with her in whispers   Each and every time she says she dies   When she is reborn again, I kiss her   And the baby never cries      She works in the daytime   She leaves her baby with a friend   And I sing every evening   I only see her now and then      I come to her at midnight   When 'bout half the world's asleep   And she puts me back together   In the hours before I leave      So I come and go with her in whispers   Each and every time she says she dies   When she is reborn again, I kiss her   And the baby never cries      Her apartment's down on Perry Street   And there's a tree in her backyard   And it rubs the bedroom window   When the wind is blowing hard      Her old man had left her   He just took off for the coast   And I caught her on the rebound   When I needed her the most      So I come and go with her in whispers   And each and every time she says she dies   When she is reborn again, I kiss her   And the baby never cries