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