A Night In The Nursery

Come hither, come hither to me under the canopy

Pull the sheets up high; another milky sky

There are oranges and bananas and coffee with cream

Try to be patient now while your brother tells his dream

I remember a storm and a picnic by the lake

I remember the mess a little anger can make

I eat my breakfast like the food at a wake

Like a little lamb

Put me in the car and take me to my bed

There's a train in my blood and it's ringing in my head

In a bedroom so dark, a friend is a'nappin'

In the hallway there's a bark, and a cane is a'tappin'

On the floorboards

Carriage lamps flicker past the docks and the crooked mast

And the palsied and the plagued in the streets of the ash

They were children, they were singing all their sailor's carols

Now the hard luck faces 'round the fire

So put me in my car and take me to my bed

There's a train in my bloodstream and it's ringin' in my head

It's the sun through the slats that keeps us coming back

And the morning is an overripe melancholy dog by the fireplace

A cradle, a cradle

A kiss and a fable

The den mothers hover all around you

The belle of the ball

The wine's turned to gall