Todd Snider: Sunshine
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Standing out on the edge of a building
Watching the traffic below
Drinking and beer and thinking of jumping
Not far from ready to go
Below me the crowd slowly gathers around
Cops cars with news cameras too
I just can?t get out of the pain I?m in
I don?t know what else to do
Sometimes I feel like I?m so uninvited
Like something so out of touch
They tell me depression runs in the family
But that don?t help me much
The crowds yelling ?jump? over cop on a bullhorn
Making him harder to hear
He?s saying something about having so much to live for
I?m almost through with my beer
(whistle)
Squinting my eyes to see through the sunlight
The crowd is even bigger now
There?s no point in wondering what afterlife?s like
It don?t matter anyhow
We?re already in hell as far as I can tell
Just listen to these people scream
This feels like a rally in a high school field house
I feel like the captain of the team
Well, here goes the captain of the team
(whistle)
Follow the light to the Garden of Eden
Stand at the pearly gate
St. Peter comes over
His hand on my shoulder
He tells me I?ve got to wait
He says you know you can?t kill yourself and still get in here kid
But, you look like a victim of circumstance
So, I?m just gonna break every bone in your body
And give you another chance
Waking up slowly
Looking around me
Alone in recovery room
But closing my eyes I can see the new sunrise
Over acres of flowers in bloom
I don?t know when it will be
But the next time you see me
I?ll be tapping to a whole new beat
Walking souls into the holes of my shoes
Down the sunny side of the street
Sunshine
(whistle)