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lyrics
When I woke up this morning,
I was feeling pretty weird
I asked the sun down for some coffee,
shook some sugar from my beard
but then he told me that he loved me
and that he wanted me to stay right by his side.
I stepped back until my heels clacked
on the door that leads outside,
and said, "I like you plenty, Sun,
but they would call that suicide."
He said, "I'm always fooled by love
and all these things in life that I don't understand.
When I come around your town,
I wish I'd never come.
When I come around your town,
I wish I'd just stayed home."
When I asked him not to go,
he couldn't look me in the eye.
Before he hid behind his cloud,
I saw a tear drop from his eye.
And then he started with the thunder,
and the hailing, and the surging, and the rain.
Now the streets are getting flooded
and I don't know what to say,
But if everybody had an ocean
across the whole wide USA,
I think they'd ride along on rooftops
screaming "Moses!" screaming "Jesus!" as they pass.
But when they come around your town,
you'll wish they'd never come
And when they come around your town
you'd wish they'd just move on.
30 days and 30 nights passed
and I stared up at the stars.
I wrote the Sun a little note
with all the warmth that's in my heart.
I said, "you're far too much above me
and when you told me that you loved me, I was scared."
And then the Sun burst from his slumber
and he slapped me on the back
now when we think about the old times
we can both look back and laugh.
But sometimes in the morning,
pouring coffee, I see storm clouds in the sky.
When they come around your town
you'll wish they'd never come
When they come around your town
you'll wish they'd just move on.
credits
from More Songs About Insects & Fruit,
released May 16, 2014
Andhi O'Neill - vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion, harmonica.
Ryan Loizzo - upright bass.
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