The Scream at the Birth of the World (alternative version)

[Verse 1] Grief is a sound, is a song, or a sigh a sob somewhere high and here's how I know it -- a cat hair on vinyl, the album long over the cat died of cancer the music's forgotten [Chorus] That is why a baby's cry can drive a parent crazy the sound, the sound the sound the sound like the scream at the birth of the world [Verse 2] When elephants listen to tapes of dead voices companions' ghost noises they search for the missing -- Their trunks are seen flailing and scooping the ground their ears flap around as they search for the loved one [Bridge] Sound is a force like a push out the door or a knock to the floor, wailing in sorrow -- sound is a song that can lift you to dance or to take a big chance until there's tomorrow [Chorus] That is why a baby's cry can drive a parent crazy the sound, the sound the sound the sound like the scream at the birth of the world [Verse 3] Tapes of the songs you would sing in the old days, vague words like love always, but memory fails you -- your ex-partners' voices will never quite leave you their tone says believe you but someone was lying [Chorus] that is why a baby's cry can drive a parent crazy the sound, the sound the sound the sound like the scream at the birth of the world