Crying Babies (feat. Lisa Gutkin, Peter Calo & Jeff Eyrich)

Lying awake, it's late at night, it's late in life. We've lived in this house a long, long time It's been mostly fine, most of the time. Was it just yesterday or twenty years ago? it's hard to know Time was when the babies cried, we'd be up all night, until the light. Long weary nights, i longed for sleep, never counted sheep Warm baby at my breast, I stroked their heads, and breathed their scent. Now, when i wake in the night All i hear is the sound Of a lonely barred owl. Or a coyote's song, So why do i long To hear babies now? Still crying babies haunt my dreams I never thought i'd miss that sound When the long night comes down. I'll never hear my babies cry, never hear them again When all the pretty birds leave the nest And the old birds take their rest When all the pretty birds leave the nest And the old birds take their rest.