Cry Of A Tiny Babe (with Lou Reed, Rosanne Cash & Rob Wasserman) - Live Version

Mary grows a child without the help of a man
 Joseph gets upset because he doesn't understand
 Angel comes to Joseph in a powerful dream
 Says God did this and your part of his scheme
 Joseph comes to Mary with his hat in his hand
 Says, forgive me, I thought you'd been with some other man
 She says what if I had been, but I wasn't anyway
 And guess what, I felt the baby kick today
 Like a stone on the surface of a still river
 Driving the ripples on forever,
 Redemption rips through the surface of time in the cry of a tiny babe
 The child is born in the fullness of time
 Three wise astrologers take note of the signs
 Come to pay their respects to the fragile little king
 Get pretty close to wrecking everything
 Cause the governing body of the Holy land,
 Is that of Herod a paranoid man
 Who when he hears there's a baby born, King of the Jews
 Sends death squads to kill all male children under two
 But that same bright angel warns the parents in a dream
 And they head out for the border and getaway clean
 Like a stone on the surface of a still river
 Driving the ripples on forever,
 Redemption rips through the surface of time in the cry of a tiny babe
 And there are others who know about this miracle birth
 The humblest of people catch a glimpse of their worth
 For it isn't to the palace that the Christ child comes
 But to shepards and street people, hookers and bums
 And the message is clear if you have ears to hear
 That forgiveness is given for your guilt and your fears
 It's a Christmas gift that you don't have to buy
 There's a future shining in a baby's eye
 Like a stone on the surface of a still river
 Driving the ripples on forever,
 Redemption rips through the surface of time in the cry of a tiny babe
 Like a stone on the surface of a still river
 Driving the ripples on forever,
 Redemption rips through the surface of time in the cry of a tiny babe