Nobody's Baby Anymore

Once I was cherished, treasured as a prize

Guardian angels flew upside my head, peacocks danced behind my eyes

A brass band played a serenade on my parade, my splendour was adored

Now I'm nobody's baby anymore

I've stepped out on highways that were studded with jewels

I rode into the City of Kings on the back of a mule

I kissed riches, strode tall in my britches, I knew esprit de corps

Now I'm nobody's baby anymore

I've had love and I've had love

Too much or not enough

Both the famine and the feast

Have gone to make my beast

I went to the river and I sucked the river dry

I swallowed Eden whole, I rolled and smoked the sky

Drank my skinful, slaked my thirst, from shore to barren shore

Now I'm nobody's baby anymore