Put Your Baby Down Lyrics

Toes

Pressed against the well

Drop the bucket now

Drop your secrets and sing your song

The one of love and doubt

The one you shouted out

The day your silence won out

Nobody was ready for

The shaming hid beneath the floor

Mama put your baby down

It's time to stand up tall

And fight them all

Careful with your innocence

The hollow heart you've often missed

Everybody's waiting for the

Moment to be there

To help you break his stare

Steel

Of will and mind are you

You have your fortune, too

Spill your wine on the floor

And watch

Watch it trickle down

Meander to the ground

The way we might have been found

Through the heat of midday sun

We heard the lashing, angry tongue

Forever's such a lonely word

When all you know is now

And you can't see out

Scattered over towns and turf

Buried underneath the dirt

On your own is scary

Take a chance to let them grow

Without the things you know

No one

Was ready for

The shame that hid

Beneath your door

Mama

Put your baby down

It's time to stand up tall

We'll help you fight them all