After you're gone, babies ride the soft machine

Threading the warm children down the space between

Into a slow heaven, hanging by a thread

Leaving the still living for the walking dead

It took so long to find my way out of here

Out of the warm night, to the hard light, shivering with fear

After you're gone, babies crawling on the world

Touching the souls of all the lonely, carefree boys and girls

Daddy needs you, Mama feeds you, and they come until they go

But if I'm lonely, I'm the only one who knows

It took so long to find my way out of here

Out of the warm night, to the hard light, shivering with fear

After the slow lonely waiting, I'm all alone, alone and free

If you see me, please believe me, I want to be

After you're gone, babies screaming at the rain

Hanging a slow heaven in the wind again

She's been waiting 270 days

She's sick of waiting, she says

"When you see me, please believe me

I'm the only one who cares at all"

It took so long to find my way out of here

Out of the warm night, to the hard light, shivering with fear

After the slow lonely waiting, I'm all alone, alone and free

If you see me, please believe me, I want to be

After you're gone