Name: Here Comes the Sunburn
Duration: P00H06M05S
Description: This blues-rock track includes a fairly tangential tribute to George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun," but if you comb the lyrics, you'll see it. The song was built around Clint Davidson's riff. Fun to perform. This is the first of five songs taken from the "Meet Your Maker" storyline. Our hero is lost in the desert and becoming delirious from exposure.

Here Comes the Sunburn

from No Outlet by Jeff Elbel + Ping

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This blues-rock track includes a fairly tangential tribute to George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun," but if you comb the lyrics, you'll see it. The song was built around Clint Davidson's riff. Fun to perform. This is the first of five songs taken from the "Meet Your Maker" storyline. Our hero is lost in the desert and becoming delirious from exposure.

lyrics

here comes, here comes the sunburn, Masey
red hot white man
cutting through the savage tan

here comes the sunburn, Masey
red light white heat
incinerating by degree

with the sun protection factor
running zero down on me ...
gonna wear the blackest shade of coal
that the world has ever seen

here comes the sunburn, Masey
deep sky wide sand
only creature in the land

here comes the sunburn, Masey
spare time, no plans
idle mind and busy hands
busy, busy

if absence makes the heart grow fonder
then everybody's loving me ...
gonna build the biggest sand castle
that the world has ever seen

well, i can feel my body blister
as i cross this desert land
i'll expire here in style
in my palace in the sand
if i had my old umbrella
i'd be singing in the rays
no tea across the Great Sand Sea
no shelt'ring from the sky
no shade

here comes the sunburn, Masey
all beach, no shore
crawling on the desert floor
little darlin'

here comes the sunburn, Masey
pale face blood red
peeling skin begin to shed
little darlin'

i feel my eyes are slowly melting
it's been so long since they've been clear
gonna leave a bleach-blonde skeleton
and i'm going to leave it here

well, i can feel my body blister
as i cross this desert land
i'll expire here in style
in my palace in the sand
if i had my old umbrella
i'd be singing in the rays
no tea across the Great Sand Sea
no shelt'ring from the sky
no shade

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from No Outlet, released July 4, 2021
Written by Jeff Elbel and Clint Davidson

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