[Verse 1]
She's hidden her babies away
Their soft, gummy smiles won't be gilding the menu
The deer fly, the sand fly, the tsetse can't find them
The goon from the Stasi is left far behind them
Their delicate derma won't witness a ray
She's hidden her babies away

[Verse 2]
She's hidden her babies away
No raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens
They refuse to be blinded by Rubens or Poussin
They'll hardly be boarding the 12:10 to Tucson
Is she shaking them hard in dry run cabaret?
She's hidden her babies away

[Refrain]
Ho, ho, watenay
Ho, ho, watenay
Ho, ho, watenay
I'm closing in, I'm closing in

[Verse 3]
She's hidden her babies away
And why bring them out with no shelter on offer?
The nurseries and creches are heavily with lush lice
Bubonic, blue blankets run ragged with church mice
The Havana has died in the clam-shell ashtray
She's hidden her babies away
[Verse 4]
She's hidden her babies away
From posed, high pelvic bridges, pearly bone mountain ridges
No hiccupy silence to finger their traces
No colicky moon shines bright pain on their faces
She has slipped through the dark like a mother moray
She's hidden her babies away

[Refrain]
Ho, ho, watenay
Ho, ho, watenay
Ho, ho, watenay
I'm closing in, I'm closing in

[Verse 5]
I've come searching from far and away
A reaching, long armed vet ape feeling hard for a breech birth
I gaze up at the night, at the asterisk's blazing
Until they straighten and like, tiny spines, fall to earth
I bite down on this as I dance and I pray
She's hidden her babies away