And the Baby Never Cries

Well, I've sung out one more evening

Yes I'm wrung out, feeling beat

And I walk on out the door once more

To an empty city street

A good guitar will serve you well

When you're living in the lights

But it's never going to warm you

In the middle of the night

And so I come and go with her in whispers

Each and every time she says she dies

When she is reborn again, I kiss her

And the baby never cries

She works in the daytime

She leaves her baby with a friend

And I sing every evening

I only see her now and then

I come to her at midnight

When 'bout half the world's asleep

And she puts me back together

In the hours before I leave

So I come and go with her in whispers

Each and every time she says she dies

When she is reborn again, I kiss her

And the baby never cries

Her apartment's down on Perry Street

And there's a tree in her backyard

And it rubs the bedroom window

When the wind is blowing hard

Her old man had left her

He just took off for the coast

And I caught her on the rebound

When I needed her the most

So I come and go with her in whispers

And each and every time she says she dies

When she is reborn again, I kiss her

And the baby never cries