Too Close To The Sun Lyrics - Mutton Birds

(Words: Don McGlashan - Music: David Long/Don McGlashan) 

It's so dry here 

One spark and the whole place could go up 

I think I'll stop and get a drink here 

Something like the picture on the poster I saw a few miles back 

A green can on a nest of ice 

Like the egg of some Antarctic bird 

And I've seen this town in a dream 

I was running away 

>From something that I didn't want to see 

It was a day like today 

I watched the sky melt over Highway One 

And I felt too close to the sun 

Neighbour of mine 

Got out of his car somewhere down country in weather like this 

Just disappeared 

Left the engine running 

Police came to talk to his wife 

I watched them from my window 

She was shaking her head 

The cops were standing, with their big hands hanging down 

And I've seen this town in a dream 

I was running away 

>From something that I didn't want to see 

It was a day like today 

I watched the sky melt over Highway One 

And I felt too close to the sun 

Who's that yonder dressed in white? 

(An old man kneeling on the bowling green 

Shiny with gin and brilliantine) 

He might as well have stepped from a satellite 

(Looks at me and gets up slowly 

Smiles and waves as if he knows me) 

And I've seen this town in a dream 

I was running away 

>From something that I didn't want to see 

It was a day like today 

I watched the sky melt over Highway One 

And I felt too close to the sun 

Too close to the sun 

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