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 here, they won't know who I am
People here, 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 light is like skeletons go
Mama, ooh
Mama, ooh
Mama, oh mama, up here where I'm free
I have seen beauty you wouldn't believe
Juniper's ledges and juniper's birds
But juniper's edges and mine become blurred
Mama, ooh

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, ooh
Mama, ooh
Mama, ooh
Mama, ooh
Oh-oo-oo
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 sleeper-walker and each hungry girl
Mama, oh ma'am, who you think came down this hill to draw me up to you today?

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, I'm holding your hand
In these glorious dreams in which you understand
Mama, I'm whispering
Mama, I'm holding your hand

Mama, don't make me come down