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  1. Tracks
  2. The Mountain Goats
  3. All Hail West Texas
  4. Color in Your Cheeks

TRACK

The Mountain Goats

Color in Your Cheeks

Release date: 19th February 2002

From All Hail West Texas
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About This Track

"Color in Your Cheeks" is a track by The Mountain Goats, from the album All Hail West Texas, released 19th February 2002. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

The Mountain Goats

The Mountain Goats

Lyrics

Color in Your Cheeks

[Verse 1]

She came in on the red-eye to Dallas-Fort Worth

All the way from sunny Taipei

Skin the color of a walnut shell

And a baseball cap holding down her black hair

And she came here after midnight

The hot weather made her feel right at home

[Chorus]

Come on in

We haven't slept for weeks

Drink some of this

It'll put color in your cheeks

[Verse 2]

He drove in from Mexicali, no worse for wear

Money to burn, time to kill

But five minutes looking in his eyes

And we all knew he was broken pretty bad, so we gave him what we had

We cleared a space for him to sleep in

And we let the silence, that's our trademark, make its presence felt

[Chorus]

Come on in

We haven't slept for weeks

Drink some of this

It'll put color in your cheeks

[Verse 3]

They came in by the dozens, walking or crawling

Some were bright-eyed, some were dead on their feet

And they came from Zimbabwe, or from Soviet Georgia

East Saint Louis, or from Paris, or they lived across the street

But they came, and when they finally made it here

It was the least that we could do to make our welcome clear

[Chorus]

Come on in

We haven't slept for weeks

Drink some of this

This'll put color in your cheeks

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Track details

From All Hail West Texas

2002
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Album
All Hail West Texas
All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats
Release year
2002
  1. —Jeff Davis County Blues
  2. —Distant Stations
  3. —Color in Your Cheeks
  4. —Balance
  5. —The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
  6. —Fall of the Star High School Running Back
  7. —The Mess Inside
  8. —Blues in Dallas
  9. —Riches and Wonders
  10. —Jenny
  11. —Source Decay
  12. —Fault Lines
  13. —Absolute Lithops Effect
  14. —Pink and Blue

Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
John Darnielle
Producer
John Darnielle

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