Dan Bern - Capetown lyrics

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Dan Bern - Capetown

And I found a girl in Capetown, I was with her three days straight

She showed up right on time, not too soon and not too late

And all that I remember was we barely left the room

And I’m sure somewhere the sun came up and went back down again

And I open up my window, and the world is upside down

Oh, Capetown

And all I had was time and I drank me a few beers

And I Googled people that I hadn’t seen in twenty years

And to my great surprise, when I typed in your name I learned

You were working in a chemical plant in Johannesburg

And I’m hanging out in Capetown, and it ain’t too far away

Maybe I’ll see you sometime in a Johannesburg café

Lots of folks live on the streets here and there’s more all the time

But the water, she’s beautiful, and there’s plenty of good cheap wine

And if you crane your neck too far, there’s a hand around your throat

And you’ll wind up staring with your pockets clean from the bottom of a boat

When Gandhi came his eyes were blue, when he left his eyes were brown

Oh, Capetown

And I would gladly run off to the corners of the earth

But I find myself in Capetown by an accident of birth, yeah

I would gladly run off to the corners of the sky

But I find myself in Capetown, don’t matter why

Oh, Capetown

Fallin I am fallin off the great table of space

It’s all I can do to get up, splash water on my face

Capetown is my refuge, Capetown is my dare

If I can’t make it in Capetown, never make it anywhere

All right then, enough of this ramblin, gonna take a look around

Oh, Capetown