once there was a baby

Can I be your mother and feather and wrap around you

Keep you warm whenever I need you

I held a baby today and for every day of my life I want to keep one

Would you be my baby

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Can I let you crawl up my chest the way that baby did to me

Make you smile and set you free

The city never sleeps and if I were to be your mother I shall never sleep

Motherly instinct     Him     He

To me I need you to flee 

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Don’t be resentful when I don’t listen to your call

If you feel lonely come and find me we can talk

Not the same way my mother never listened to me

Rest upon my shore like an orphan I’ll offer you a home

Not the same way you hardly had a home