You come from far away
With pictures in your eyes
Of coffeeshops and morning streets

In the blue and silent sunrise
But night is the cathedral
Where we recognized the sign

We strangers know each other now
As part of the whole design


Oh, hold me like a baby
That will not fall asleep
Curl me up inside you

And let me hear you through the heat

You are the jester of this courtyard

With a smile like a girl's
Distracted by the women
With the dimples and the curls

By the pretty and the mischievous
By the timid and the blessed
By the blowing skirts of ladies

Who promise to gather you to their breast

Oh, hold me like a baby...


You have hands of raining water
And that earring in your ear

The wisdom on your face
Denies the number of your years
With the fingers of the potter

And the laughing tale of the fool
The arranger of disorder
With your strange and simple rules

Yes now I've met me another spinner
Of strange and gauzy threads
With a long and slender body

And a bump upon the head

Oh, hold me like a baby...


With a long and slender body
And the sweetest softest hands

And we'll blow away forever soon
And go on to different lands
And please do not ever look for me

But with me you will stay
And you will hear yourself in song
Blowing by one day


Oh, hold me like a baby...