COUNTING CROWS - Cover Up The Sun lyrics

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(Verse)

Colorado passes by like color writing on a wall

Headed eastward down to New Orleans

Dipping into Texas as the stars are fading out

And there's still a lot of country in between

When I left California I was 29 years old

And the world just spun me around

Now I watched Louisiana squirrel cross the window pane

And I'm facing the direction I am bound

(Chorus)

Cover up the sun, let the river run

Make that water pun and watch me away

(Verse)

Me clifting at the Cater Cots and sat down in the road

Pedro said, boys, we're three of kind

He said I sat with river rats and I hung my hat with diplomats

Had four brothers once upon a time

He said they tore the country far away from the Rio Crown

And the road just wore them down

So they bought a house beside Louie, outside of New Orleans

And they stared in the direction of the escalating sun

(Chorus)

Cover up the gun, let the river run

Take this good man's son and wash him away

(Verse)

Sister and the sackable talking to a wall

Back in New York city, she's a queen

Well, resurrector Geniufleck(?), she saves the one she can't protect

Keep the chapel pressed, but not sixteen (?)

She takes Absinthe mixed with Kerosene to keep herself up right

But the word still breaks her down

Listen, if you can't keep your shit together

When God is on your side

What chance do you have when he's not around?

(Chorus)

Cover up the sun, make that water run

Make the river come and take me away

(Verse)

People of the Mardi Gras, in their Tuesday's best

Waiting for the South to rise again

Children of Geronimo grieving for the West

Feather dressed and marching their refrain

All in the dark of Armstrong(?) point the marching band's ascent

But they never make a sound, just a quite prayer for communist square

Quiet congregation air, the night to rest our eyes

And put your lips to the horizon for a change

(Chorus)

Cover up the sun, let the river run

I pray the water come and wash me away

Carved in the sky, I'll make that Jesus(?) fly

Come on, just lay me down to die and just take me away

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