Gypsy

You come from far away In the blue and silent sunrise With pictures in your eyes Of coffeeshops and morning streets Where we recognized the sign But night is the cathedral We strangers know each other now As part of the whole design Curl me up inside you That will not fall asleep Oh, hold me like a baby And let me hear you through the heat You are the jester of this courtyard With a smile like a girl's With the dimples and the curls Distracted by the women By the pretty and the mischievous By the timid and the blessed By the blowing skirts of ladies Who promise to gather you to their breast Oh, hold me like a baby... You have hands of raining water And that earring in your ear The wisdom on your face Denies the number of your years With the fingers of the potter The arranger of disorder And the laughing tale of the fool With your strange and simple rules Yes now I've met me another spinner Of strange and gauzy threads With a long and slender body And a bump upon the head Oh, hold me like a baby... With a long and slender body And the sweetest softest hands And we'll blow away forever soon And go on to different lands And please do not ever look for me Blowing by one day But with me you will stay And you will hear yourself in song Oh, hold me like a baby