The Piper and the Wolfe - Mulberry Street

[Intro] There's a man on Mulberry Street Who plays a song the children hear And every child who follows the sound Was never seen again around here [Verse 3] They call him the Piper, he don't carry a pipe He carry a pitch, a rhythm, a light In the eyes of a kid who ain't eaten in days Sleeping in a doorway, lost in the haze "You want to eat? I know somebody" "You want new shoes? I know somebody" "You want a family?" "I am somebody" Group homes and underpasses, bus station floors School parking lots and revolving doors He find the ones that nobody's missing Fosters aged out, runaways drifting Yellow missing posters curling on the wall Nobody's looking, nobody saw He gave 'em a corner, a phone, and a name Lookout, runner, counter, soldier in the game [Pre-Hook] EVERY CHILD WHO FOLLOWED HIS SONG WALKED WILLINGLY INTO THE BUSH THE BUSH SWALLOWED THEM WHOLE AND THE ROOTS KEPT PUSHING [Hook] Come follow, come follow, come follow me To the mulberry bush, to the mulberry tree The music is sweet and the night is long Come follow the piper, come follow the song [Verse 4] Special Agent Warren Wolfe, three years on the wall Photographs and string connecting them all Wife stopped asking when he's coming home Daughter draws him at a desk, always alone He kicked Straw's door on a Tuesday morning Cuffs clicked before the pig could give a warning Huffed and puffed, straw scattered in an hour But Straw didn't know enough to give him power Stu took months—wiretaps, subpoenas, paper trails Ghost contractors traced back to Willy's rails Sticks held longer, lawyers filled the gaps But stick houses fold under federal wraps Stu flipped, Stu talked, Stu gave him the thread A line to Solomon—but Solomon just spread His lawyers like mortar, his money like cement Wolfe huffed and puffed and the brick house didn't dent [Pre-Hook] THEN HE FOUND THE PIPER'S TRAIL A RUNAWAY WITH A STORY TO TELL NOT THE MONEY, NOT THE PRODUCT, NOT THE MUSCLE THE CHILDREN BECAUSE A JURY WON'T FORGIVE THAT [Hook] Little pig, little pig, let me come in No no no, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin Then I'll huff and I'll puff And I'll blow your house in [Bridge] Fuzzy knew what the Piper did Willy factored it into the budget Schae gave them the shells to sell Blue gave them the corners to stand on And when one disappeared The Piper played his song again And another child walked into the dark [Final Breakdown] THE HUFFING AND PUFFING AIN'T OVER IT'S JUST GETTING STARTED EVERY CHILDHOOD MELODY HIDING SOMETHING WORSE [Outro] Here we go 'round the mulberry bush The mulberry bush... the mulberry... ...so early... ...in the...