Mother Father I'm standing Standing and I'm not about to fall When I can speak I'll tell you not to worry Or be sorry For anything 'Cause no one understands this world at all My father Swept me over His shoulders Above the empty cars to see the fair A slowly spinning wheel of smiling Neighbors And flowers For my mother Who sang to me that night of love and death 'Cause everybody sings of love and death We dreamt our Sons and daughters A high wire Connecting the four corners of the earth But the wire disappeared and left them standing On nothing In mid air Standing and they're not about to fall Child You'll grow up In wonder Like we'll grow old Like our parents did And their parents before It was written on the faces in the waiting room The day you were born Child You'll grow up In wonder Like we'll grow old Like our parents did And their parents before It was written on the faces in the waiting room The day they and we and you were born