Too Close to the Sun - The Mutton Birds

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