Byrne David Burnt By The Sun Lyrics

Burnt By The Sun Lyrics

Atom-smashers in the cocktail lounge tonight

 Opera singers in the graveyard keeping time

 And the DJ mixes them all

 And the music rhymes but it crawls

 And the music comes from hydrogen bombs

 Rock bands died when amateurs won

 Data in a hurry, using the new rubble

 Wipe it up baby, gonna get yourself in trouble

 

 We were burnt by the sun

 Having way too much fun

 Sleepless downtown overload

 Does the daylight bring you down?

 

 Money pours down and it drowns the little man

 Parking lot attendants stuff their pockets with their hands

 And the children laugh in your face

 They can see what you have erased

 When dogs make love they don't look at themselves

 Checking out each other by the way that they smell

 Rubbing and a'scratching, itching all the time

 Stop me if I talk too much, do another line

 

 We were burnt by the sun

 Having way too much fun

 The church of private enterprise

 Did the daylight bring you down?

 

 I love salt, I love sweets

 I know there's danger but I fall asleep

 The curves, the gasps, the love of life

 Headlines, gum box, faceless paradise

 

 Life rafts bobbing at the bottom of the pier

 Wood burns faster if it's soaked in gasoline

 All these towns look the same, everybody's clean

 Roll 'em out, cheap and fast, kiss me when I fall

 

 We were burnt by the sun

 Having way too much fun

 Sleepless downtown overload

 Did I stay outside too long?

 

 Alcohol, razor-blades

 All the clouds are miles away

 Take me down, far away

 Everyone's on holiday

 Alcohol, razor-blades

 All the clouds are miles away

 Take me now, fly away

 Everyone's on holiday

 All the clouds are miles away

 All the clouds are miles away

 Everyone's on holiday

 Everyone's on holiday

 Everyone's on holiday

 Everyone's on holiday

 Everyone's on holiday

 Everyone's on holiday