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The wall is high, the black barn,
The babe in my arms in her swaddling clothes
And I know soon that the sky will split
And the planets will shift,
Balls of jade will drop and existence will stop.
Little sister, the sky is falling, I don't mind, I don't mind.
Little sister, the fates are calling on you.
Ah, here I stand again in this old 'lectric whirlwind,
The sea rushes up my knees like flame
And I feel like just some misplaced Joan Of Arc
And the cause is you lookin' up at me.
Oh baby, I remember when you were born,
It was dawn and the storm settled in my belly
And I rolled in the grass and I spit out the gas
And I lit a match and the void went flash
And the sky split and the planets hit,
Balls of jade dropped and existence stopped, stopped, stop, stop.
Little sister, the sky is falling, I don't mind, I don't mind.
Little sister, the fates are calling on you.
I was goin' crazy, so crazy I knew I could break through with you,
So with one hand I rocked you and with one heart I reached for you.
Ah, I knew your youth was for the takin', fire on a mental plane,
So I ran through the fields as the bats with their baby vein faces
Burst from the barn and flames in a violent violet sky,
And I fell on my knees and pressed you against me.
Your soul was like a network of spittle,
Like glass balls movin' in like cold streams of logic,
And I prayed as the lightning attacked
That something will make it go crack, something will make it go crack,
Something will make it go crack, something will make it go crack.
The palm trees fall into the sea,
It doesn't matter much to me
As long as you're safe, Kimberly.
And I can gaze deep
Into your starry eyes, baby, looking deep in your eyes, baby,
Looking deep in your eyes, baby, looking deep in your eyes, baby,
Into your starry eyes, oh.
Oh, in your starry eyes, baby,
Looking deep in your eyes, baby, looking deep in your eyes, baby, oh.
Oh, looking deep in your eyes, baby,
Into your starry eyes, baby, looking deep in your eyes, baby



Writer(s): Patti Smith, Ivan Kral, Allen Glover Lanier


Patti Smith - The Arista Years 1975-2000 (Remastered)
Album The Arista Years 1975-2000 (Remastered)
date of release
16-01-2012

1   Rock N Roll Nigger
2   Seven Ways of Going
3   54321/Wave
4   Babelogue
5   Gloria
6   Redondo Beach
7   Birdland
8   Free Money
9   Kimberly
10   Break It Up
11   Land
12   Elegie
13   My Generation
14   Ask the Angels
15   Ain’t It Strange
16   Poppies
17   Pissing In a River
18   Pumping
19   Distant Fingers
20   Radio Ethiopia
21   Abyssinia
22   Chiklets
23   Till Victory
24   Space Monkey
25   Because the Night
26   Ghost Dance
27   Privilege (Set Me Free)
28   We Three
29   25th Floor
30   High On Rebellion
31   Easter
32   Godspeed
33   Frederick
34   Dancing Barefoot
35   So You Want to Be
36   Hymn
37   Revenge
38   Citizen Ship
39   Broken Flag
40   Wave
41   Fire of Unknown Origin
42   People Have the Power
43   Up There Down There
44   Paths That Cross
45   Dream of Life
46   Where Duty Calls
47   Going Under
48   Looking for You (I Was)
49   The Jackson Song
50   As the Night Goes By
51   Wild Leaves
52   Gone Again
53   Beneath the Southern Cross
54   About a Boy
55   My Madrigal
56   Summer Cannibals
57   Dead To the World
58   Wing
59   Ravens
60   Wicked Messenger
61   Fireflies
62   Farewell Reel
63   Waiting Underground
64   Whirl Away
65   1959
66   Spell
67   Don't Say Nothing
68   Dead City
69   Blue Poles
70   Death Singing
71   Memento Mori
72   Last Call
73   One Voice
74   Lo and Beholden
75   Boy Cried Wolf
76   Persuasion
77   Gone Pie
78   China Bird
79   Glitter In Their Eyes
80   Strange Messengers
81   Grateful
82   Upright Come
83   New Party
84   Libbie's Song
85   Gung Ho




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