Cover Up The Sun Lyrics - Somewhere Under Wonderland - Counting Crows

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Colorado passes by like writing on a wall 

Headed eastward down to New Orleans 

Dipping into Texas as the stars are fading out 

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 scroll across the window pane 

And I'm facing the direction I am bound 

Cover up the sun 

Let the river run 

Make that waters come 

Wash me away 

Me, Clifton and the king of cats 

We 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 Grande 

And the road just wore them down 

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

And they stared in the direction of the escalating sound 

Cover up the sun 

Let the river run 

Take this good man's son 

And wash him away 

Well Sister indeciperable is talking to a wall 

Back in New York city, she's a queen (in New York sh's a queen) 

Well, resurrector Genuflect, she saves the one she can't protect 

Keep the chapel pressed, if not Sistine 

She drinks Absinthe mixed with Kerosene to keep herself upright 

But the word still brings her down 

If you can't keep your shit together 

When God is on your side 

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

Cover up the sun 

Make that water run 

Let the river come 

To wash me away 

People of the Mardi Gras, in their Tuesday best 

Waiting for the South to rise again 

Children of Geronimo grieving for the West 

Feather dressed and marching their refrain 

Oh in the dark of Armstrong Park the marching bands ascend 

But they never make a sound 

Just a quiet prayer for communist square 

A silent conversation there 

With the night to rest our eyes in 

We just look to the horizon for a change 

Cover up the sun 

Let the river run 

I pray the water come and wash me away 

Color in the sky 

Make that diesel fly 

Oh, just lay me down to die and just take me away 

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