Cry Baby Cry

Baby cry,
cry baby,
cry, baby, cry.

Baby cry,
cry baby,
cry, baby, cry.

Baby cry,
cry baby,
cry, baby, cry.

There’s nothing left here,
don’t you see, honey,

There’s nothing left to do here,
don’t you see, honey.

So what we are here alone,
for now let’s just cry,
because it won’t do anything,
because we will never change.

All my friends learned to wait in silence,
to bend until their phones start to charge,
to stand under the waterfall and shout,

and listen to the funny noise it makes when the water eats up all our voice,
and it closes around my throat,
and I try to talk,
I try to talk to everyone I meet,

a wheel rolled over my foot,
and I talk before I cry.
And now I can’t talk anymore.

I wait.
I wait in silence,
And I wait in silence,
for the steel fingers to grasp me,
hold me back,
and I will have it watch me fall apart,

falling apart talking,
I will have it watch me.