To Baby

You gave me all the love

that’s necessary

When two people try

to find themselves

Love beyond all common sense

Based on some sweet permanence

With only one

And baby I thought I needed you

In a changing world, baby

I thought I needed you

Wanting so to give away,

important things I’d had to say

for many days,

And suddenly you came along

To help me share my perfect song,

in perfect ways,

And baby I thought I needed you

In a changing world baby,

I thought I needed you

The closer that we drew together

Made our love seem like

forever, naturally,

and then I heard you sing the song

that I was singing all along

and failed to see,

Baby, the thing that I most feared

In a changing world,baby,

I saw you disappear

Empty now and silently

You face your struggle to be free

To be on your own,

To grow so very carefully

and suffer necessarily,for what I’ve done

To baby, who wants to know her thing

In a changing world, to baby

who’s learning how to sing