Send in the Sun

[Chorus] Send in that sunshine Make everything right Turn on your love light Cause baby I’m coming on by Send in that sunshine Make everything right Cause there ain’t no suffering in life That don’t ease with the passage of time [Verse 1] If stars died of old age They wouldn’t explode, they’d burn out with a slow fade But stars escape life with a gun shot Which makes me think they stick a pistol in their sun spot Bite the barrel, squeeze the trigger Might have cared once, but the obstacles seem bigger And they’re stuck behind a giant 8 ball The milky way is star brains that are smeared across the space wall You know the red giant in sector two? Yeah, Hector, true, he was a depressing dude I think he thought nobody thought about him And now that I think about it, I’m liable to guess it’s true Everybody wants the sun to come and cure their rough moods but suns need love too I give out energy and don’t receive. I’m tired now, I’ll go to sleep And when this is the coldest solstice, maybe folks’ll notice me [Chorus] Send in that sunshine Make everything right Turn on your love light Cause baby I’m coming on by Send in that sunshine Make everything right Cause there ain’t no suffering in life That don’t ease with the passage of time [Verse 2] Goodbye Maggie, Goodbye Jules I wish you’d stuck around, you wise fools Cause friends they tend to come and go The way the ocean ebbs and flows but there’s reminders in the tide pools But when the standing water’s putrid Who am I to say a choice you made was stupid? There’s a bunch of us who loved you Fucking stuck here pointing fingers at ourselves for something you did You you you you you packed your problems in a suitcase You you you went away forever to a new place You left behind a lot of blue faces and bouquets and loose ends like shoelaces But my friend, it’s too late So all my lightweights and barflies, let’s raise a pint each time a star dies And toast the memory of hard lives Filed on the interstellar hard drives and archives