Kimberly - Live Songtext
von Patti Smith

The wall is high, the black barn
The babe in my arms in her swaddling clothes
And I know soon that the sky will split
And the planets will shift
Balls of jade will drop and existence will stop
Little sister, the sky is falling, I don′t mind, I don't mind
Little sister, the fates are calling on you
Oh no

Ah, here I stand again in this old ′lectric whirlwind
The sea rushes up my knees like flame
And I feel like just some misplaced Joan of Arc
And the cause is you lookin' up at me
Oh baby, I remember when you were born
It was dawn and the storm settled in my belly
And I rolled in the grass and I spit out the gas
And I lit a match and the void went flash
And the sky split and the planets hit


Balls of jade dropped and existence stopped, stopped, stop, stop
Little sister, the sky is falling, I don't mind, I don′t mind
Little sister, the fates are calling on you
Oh, no

Oh, I was young and crazy
So crazy I know I could break through with you
So with one hand I rocked you and with one heart I reached for you
Fire on a mental plane
Well you used words for the taken
So I took your hand and away we run all across the field
Watching that big old black barn fall over on it′s side
Like some inverted top hat
And I watched all the bats with their baby faces
Moving out to the violent violent light
And I watch them up there going up there with the planets
There were streams of them, there were spheres, spheres, stream of spheres
Movin' in like cold streams of logic
And I took your little hand and my hand and I wished
That something will make it go crack, something will make it go crack
Something will make it go crack, something will make it go crack


The palm trees fall into the sea
It doesn′t matter much to me
As long as you're safe, Kimberly
And I can gaze deep
Into your starry eyes, baby, looking deep in your eyes, baby

Looking deep in your eyes, baby, looking deep in your eyes, baby
Into your starry eyes, oh
Oh, in your starry eyes, baby
Looking deep in your eyes, baby, looking deep in your eyes, baby, oh
Oh, looking deep in your eyes, baby
Into your starry eyes, baby, looking deep in your eyes, baby