Paul Kelly - Sometimes My Baby lyrics

Sometimes my baby goes away In the blink of an eye on an ordinary day I'm right there beside her but all at a loss No way to reach her, no way to get across Was it something I did? Was it something I said? She lies on the bed with her face to the wall Oh, it's breaking my heart and it's doing my head To see her tumble and fall Sometimes my baby takes a little trip She gives me no warning, just gives me the slip I hold her and kiss her and whisper her name But she's somewhere else, I'm right out of the frame Oh, it's nothing I've done and it's nothing I've said Nothing to do with my loving at all I wish I could take out the knives in her head Like a stone in a pond she falls I listen all night to the sound of the sea The tide inches out and the tide inches in I follow the moon sinking down through the trees Until she rises again