When the Sun Gets in Your Blood

Written by: Andrew Altman

Times Played 183
First Played 11-29-2013
Last Played  11-25-2022

Lyrics:

  • These are the vignettes
  • These are the spaces
  • These are the moons
  • Of our creation

  • When the sun gets in your blood
  • When the sun gets in your blood

  • To be a spaceship
  • And make that turn
  • To the only home
  • For which we yearn

  • When the sun gets in your blood
  • When the sun gets in your blood

  • You lick the salt back
  • And taste the sound
  • Breathe the air
  • Until you drown

  • When the sun gets in your blood
  • When the sun gets in your blood

  • A tiny earthquake
  • That cracks the drive
  • Through which a flower
  • Will some day rise

  • When the sun gets in your blood
  • When the sun gets in your blood
  • When the sand in the hourglass has turned to mud
  • Then people everywhere will seek out all your love

  • There’s no depression
  • But symptoms rise
  • A Sunday drifter
  • With asphalt eyes

  • When the sun gets in your blood
  • When the sun gets in your blood

  • Glued to wheels
  • And how they turn
  • Worn to fossils
  • With fuel to burn

  • When the sun gets in your blood
  • When the sand in the hourglass has turn to mud
  • Then people everywhere will seek out all your love

  • Clouds make windows
  • That frame the sky
  • Brushed with paint
  • And hung to dry

  • When the sun gets in your blood

  • The price is set
  • And the market holds
  • No masterpiece
  • Unless it’s sold

  • When the sun gets in your blood

  • Wide the redwing
  • And stub the toe
  • To find the gravel
  • We used to know

  • When the sun gets in your blood

  • Long to winward
  • On feather luck
  • I love you bird
  • Come and pick me up

  • When the sun gets in your blood
  • When the sun gets in your blood

  • When the sun gets in your blood
  • When the sand and the hourglass turn to mud
  • Then people everywhere will seek out all your love

  • When the sun gets in your blood
  • When the sand and the hourglass turn to mud
  • Then people everywhere will seek out all your love
  • People everywhere will seek out all your love