Held a crying babe in the dead of the night My back was breaking, my arms were on fire Brother came and said: You rest a while Down on the rocks of time Down on the rocks of time Back in those days the hours dragged by The Sun was a yellow slug in the sky And in a flash six years passed by Down on the rocks of time Down on the rocks of time Spring kept pushing up the green grass high And up through the cracks in my pen lines Love to a lover with puzzle piece eyes Down on the rocks of time Down on the rocks of time I married a man in sands of white Palm trees swaying in the tropical light My feet were wet and my tears came bright Down on the rocks of time Down on the rocks of time Saw a broken woman whose man and child Swept away in a wave gone wild The hands of fate drew a cruel, cruel line Down on the rocks of time Down on the rocks of time My body kept burning up my tingling spine My hair gone silver as the old starlight My mask fell away look into my eyes Down on the rocks of time Down on the rocks of time Held a crying babe in the dead of the night My back was breaking, my arms were on fire Then brother came and said: You rest a while Down on the rocks of time Down on the rocks of time Down on the rocks of time Down on the rocks of time