Juniper

Mama, oh mama, I don't wanna come down
 Not if it's all like it was on the ground
 Hiding my feet 'cause I'm too shy to dance
 Hiding my face behind both of my hands
 Mama, oh mama, don't make me come down
 'cause I don't know what will come out of my mouth
 People will hear they won't know who I am
 People will hear and they won't understand
 Mama, I've seen them, the others like me
 Once I could see it was all I could see
 The silent procession that crosses the snow
 In which skeleton ladies like skeletons go
 Mama, oh mama, up here where I'm free
 I have seen beauty you wouldn't believe
 Juniper's ledges and Juniper's birds
 Where Juniper's edges and mine become blurred
 Mama, oh mama, if you only heard
 The reasons for living, the freedom of words
 The blooming balloon of a thought being born
 Safe in the branches of Juniper's arms
 Mama, oh mama, I'm not like you think
 Some harrowing walker down narrowing streets
 If I had my way I would bring the whole world
 Every sleepwalker and each hungry girl
 Mama, oh mama, and old uncle Tom
 My father the thinker, my daughter the song
 Tell every bell to just wake up and ring
 Tell this whole choir to just shut up and sing
 Mama, oh mama, I'm holding your hand
 In these glorious dreams in which you understand
 Mama, oh mama, we're spinning around
 Mama, oh mama, don't make me come down