from “Hey Carolina (Lullaby #1)” (2016)

Hey Carolina, sweet papa, he said,

I’ve come to take you home.

It’s not an end, or to draw you back again, it seems

Your words are alone.

They say you’re afraid, or you’re caught up in the rain, now I think,

That’s not so good for you.

And there, by and by, with the angels heard on high, they sing

They sing la di do.

Hey Carolina, sweet papa, he said,

I’ve sought, a world made up in time.

Not two or three, but if you count it back to me, it all

Fills up inside a rhyme.

Don’t push me away, this world it has to stay,

So I run to keep up with you.

And there, by and by, with the windows flashing by, can say,

I can say adieu.